We are Easter people living in a Good Friday world.
BARBARA JOHNSONWe are Easter people living in a Good Friday world.
BARBARA JOHNSONLaughter 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
BARBARA JOHNSONWe can never untangle all the woes in other people’s lives. We can’t produce miracles overnight. But we can bring a cup of cool water to a thirsty soul, or a scoop of laughter to a lonely heart.
BARBARA JOHNSONI’m glad God has all the answers, ’cause I barely understand the questions.
BARBARA JOHNSONAll we can take with us to heaven is what we leave behind in the lives we touch.
BARBARA JOHNSONTrue love doesn’t have a happy ending, because true love never ends. Letting go is one way of saying I love you.
BARBARA JOHNSONForgiveness 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.
BARBARA JOHNSONAlways remember that better days are ahead – if not in this life, in the next.
BARBARA JOHNSONIf 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.
BARBARA JOHNSONGod will never let you sink under your circumstances. He always provides a safety net and His love always encircles.
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.
BARBARA JOHNSONGrowing is a lifetime job, and we grow most when we’re down in the valleys, where the fertilizer is.
BARBARA JOHNSONYour face is a billboard advertising your philosophy of life!
BARBARA JOHNSONChange is a process not an event.
BARBARA JOHNSONSmile…it kills time between disasters.
BARBARA JOHNSONIt never hurts your eyesight to look on the bright side of things.
BARBARA JOHNSON