I’m glad God has all the answers, ’cause I barely understand the questions.
BARBARA JOHNSONA lot of kneeling keeps one in good standing.
More Barbara Johnson Quotes
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Live for today, but hold your hands open to tomorrow. Anticipate the future and its changes with joy. There is a seed of God’s love in every event, every unpleasant situation in which you may find yourself.
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Laughter dulls the sharpest pain and flattens out the greatest stress. To share it is to give a gift of health.
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When we have hope, we are showing that we trust God to work out the situation. Trust is the only way we’re going to make it through and be a part of God’s marvelous plan for His child.
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How will you use the years God gives you? Will you be remembered for being a fault-finder? Or will you be known for your quick smile, the laugh lines around your eyes, and the twinkle deep within? After all, God gives you your face, but you provide the expression!
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If we give someone a piece of bread and butter, that’s kindness, but if we put jelly or peanut butter on it, then it’s Loving Kindness.
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Stop what you are doing long enough to enjoy the sunset, listen to a special song that lifts you up, or pick up the phone and share some special thought with a caring friend.
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Forgiveness is a stunning principle, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos.
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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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Prayer is asking for rain and faith is carrying the umbrella.
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Change is a process not an event.
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My karma just ran over my dogma.
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No one likes change… but babies in diapers.
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It never hurts your eyesight to look on the bright side of things.
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Have we forgotten that we’re all born the same way: naked, wet, and hungry? Then things get worse!
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Grudges are like hand grenades: it is wise to release them before they destroy you.
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Life can be wonderful. Do your best not to miss it!” Enjoy what it is before it isn’t anymore. Dare to slip on a pair of bunny slippers once in a while! Surprise yourself! Enjoy the little things because one day you’ll look back and realize they were the big things!
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Old florists never die. They just make other arrangements.
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True love doesn’t have a happy ending, because true love never ends. Letting go is one way of saying I love you.
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Life is too short to spend it being angry, bored, or dull.
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We are Easter people living in a Good Friday world.
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Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.
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Growing is a lifetime job, and we grow most when we’re down in the valleys, where the fertilizer is.
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Teaching 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.
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You have to look for the joy. Look for the light of God that is hitting your life, and you will find sparkles you didn’t know were there.
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Your face is a billboard advertising your philosophy of life!
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Humor is the chocolate chips in the ice cream of life.
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