We spend our lives dreaming of the future, not realizing that a little of it slips away every day.
BARBARA JOHNSONTeaching literature is teaching how to read. How to notice things in a text that a speed-reading culture is trained to disregard, overcome, edit out, or explain away; how to read what the language is doing, not guess what the author was thinking; how to take evidence from a page, not seek a reality to substitute for it.
More Barbara Johnson Quotes
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Humor is the chocolate chips in the ice cream of life.
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Forgiveness is a stunning principle, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos. … I know what regret feels like; I’ve earned my credentials. But I also know what forgiveness feels like, because God has so graciously forgiven me.
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Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
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Motherhood: if it were going to be easy, it never would have started with something called labor.
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Life is too short to spend it being angry, bored, or dull.
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The secret of growing younger is counting blessings, not birthdays.
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Allow your dreams a place in your prayers and plans. God-given dreams can help you move into the future He is preparing for you.
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Faith is seeing light with your heart when all your eyes see is darkness.
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We are Easter people living in a Good Friday world.
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We are destined for joy no matter how difficult our daily life. Something in us responds to the happiness other people experience, because we glimpse life as God intended it to be.
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As you’re rushing through life, take time to stop a moment, look into people’s eyes, say something kind, and try to make them laugh!
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The most important things in your home are people.
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Don’t let your life speed out of control. Live intentionally. Do something today that will last beyond your lifetime.
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Laughter is to life what shock absorbers are to automobiles. It won’t take the potholes out of the road, but it sure makes the ride smoother
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Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to go there right away.
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