"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."
Quote collection
Barbara Johnson quotes (page 4 of 4)
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"Kids can be a pain in the neck when they're not a lump in your throat."
"My karma just ran over my dogma."
"Once a reporter stood in front of a fire as it consumed a house and then he turned to see the homeowners and their little son watching it burn. The reporter, fishing for a human interest angle, said to the boy, "Son, it looks like you don't have a home anymore." The little boy promptly answered, "Oh, yes, we have a home. We just don't have a house to put it in.""
"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."
"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."
"Smile...it kills time between disasters."
"Old florists never die. They just make other arrangements."
"Have we forgotten that we're all born the same way: naked, wet, and hungry? Then things get worse!"
"We spend our lives dreaming of the future, not realizing that a little of it slips away every day."
"I think living to be one hundred would be great, but living to fifty twice would be so much better."
"Your face is a billboard advertising your philosophy of life!"