Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.
BARBARA JOHNSONYou have to look for the joy. Look for the light of God that is hitting your life, and you will find sparkles you didn’t know were there.
More Barbara Johnson Quotes
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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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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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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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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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My karma just ran over my dogma.
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We 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.
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Prayer is asking for rain and faith is carrying the umbrella.
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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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Violets are God’s apology for February.
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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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We are destined for joy no matter how difficult our daily life. Something in us responds to the happiness other people experience, because we glimpse life as God intended it to be.
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Being codependent means that when you die, someone else’s life passes before your eyes.
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Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to go there right away.
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No one likes change… but babies in diapers.
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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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