Kids can be a pain in the neck when they’re not a lump in your throat.
BARBARA JOHNSONI’m glad God has all the answers, ’cause I barely understand the questions.
More Barbara Johnson Quotes
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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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Life is too short to spend it being angry, bored, or dull.
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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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Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional
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Faith is seeing light with your heart when all your eyes see is darkness.
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Worry is the senseless process of cluttering up tomorrows opportunities with leftover problems from today
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Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to go there right away.
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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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Winners see an answer for every problem; losers see a problem in every answer!
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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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Have we forgotten that we’re all born the same way: naked, wet, and hungry? Then things get worse!
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The secret of growing younger is counting blessings, not birthdays.
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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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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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Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.
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