Grudges are like hand grenades: it is wise to release them before they destroy you.
BARBARA JOHNSONPrayer is asking for rain and faith is carrying the umbrella.
More Barbara Johnson Quotes
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Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to go there right away.
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The secret of growing younger is counting blessings, not birthdays.
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Forgiveness 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.
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Winners see an answer for every problem; losers see a problem in every answer!
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Faith is seeing light with your heart when all your eyes see is darkness.
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Humor is the chocolate chips in the ice cream of life.
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Prayer is asking for rain and faith is carrying the umbrella.
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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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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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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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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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The most important things in your home are people.
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Forgiveness is a stunning principle, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos.
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Always remember that better days are ahead – if not in this life, in the next.
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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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No one likes change… but babies in diapers.
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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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Worry is the senseless process of cluttering up tomorrows opportunities with leftover problems from today
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The joy of motherhood: what a mother experiences when all her children are in bed
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I think living to be one hundred would be great, but living to fifty twice would be so much better.
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It never hurts your eyesight to look on the bright side of things.
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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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Have we forgotten that we’re all born the same way: naked, wet, and hungry? Then things get worse!
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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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Life is too short to spend it being angry, bored, or dull.
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