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.
BARBARA JOHNSONAll we can take with us to heaven is what we leave behind in the lives we touch.
More Barbara Johnson Quotes
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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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Violets are God’s apology for February.
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Always remember that better days are ahead – if not in this life, in the next.
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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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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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Prayer is asking for rain and faith is carrying the umbrella.
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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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If you can forgive the person you were, accept the person you are, and believe in the person you will become, you are headed for joy. So celebrate your life.
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Your face is a billboard advertising your philosophy of life!
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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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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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Grudges are like hand grenades: it is wise to release them before they destroy you.
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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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Faith is seeing light with your heart when all your eyes see is darkness.
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The attitude of kindness is everyday stuff like a great pair of sneakers. Not frilly. Not fancy. Just plain and comfortable.
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