Faith is seeing light with your heart when all your eyes see is darkness.
BARBARA JOHNSONWhen 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.
More Barbara Johnson Quotes
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We can choose to gather to our hearts the thorns of disappointment, failure, loneliness, and dismay in our present situation. Or we can gather the flowers of God’s grace, boundless love, abiding presence, and unmatched joy. I choose to gather the flowers.
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We are Easter people living in a Good Friday world.
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God will never let you sink under your circumstances. He always provides a safety net and His love always encircles.
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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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The most important things in your home are people.
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Old florists never die. They just make other arrangements.
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Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to go there right away.
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We spend our lives dreaming of the future, not realizing that a little of it slips away every day.
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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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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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Smile…it kills time between disasters.
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The joy of motherhood: what a mother experiences when all her children are in bed
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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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We cannot protect ourselves from trouble, but we can dance through the puddles of life with a rainbow smile, twirling the only umbrella we need — the umbrella of God’s love.
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Attitude is the mind’s paintbrush; it can color any situation.
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Forgiveness is a stunning principle, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos.
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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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Being codependent means that when you die, someone else’s life passes before your eyes.
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Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
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Violets are God’s apology for February.
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Grudges are like hand grenades: it is wise to release them before they destroy you.
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I don’t have to figure out why or how or when. God has a plan, and I’m committed to it. That commitment frees me from having to worry about the details.
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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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No one likes change… but babies in diapers.
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Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends.
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Kids can be a pain in the neck when they’re not a lump in your throat.
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