Barbara Johnson Quotes About Joy

Quotes about: Joy

• 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.

  Barbara Johnson

  Love, Change, God

  Barbara Johnson (2000). “Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around”, p.123, Zondervan

• You 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.

  Barbara Johnson

  Light, Joy, Looks

  Barbara Johnson (2004). “Stick a Geranium in Your Hat and Be Happy”, p.78, Thomas Nelson Inc

• 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.

  Barbara Johnson

  Believe, Joy, Forgiving

  Barbara Johnson (2000). “Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around”, p.215, Zondervan

• Life is a refining process. Our response to it determines whether we'll be ground down or polished up. On a piano, one person sits down and plays sonatas, while another merely bangs away at "Chopsticks." The piano is not responsible. It's how you touch the keys that makes the difference. It's how you play what life gives you that determines your joy and shine.

  Barbara Johnson

  Attitude, Keys, Play

  Barbara Johnson (2000). “Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around”, p.79, Zondervan

• 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.

  Barbara Johnson

  Disappointment, Loneliness, Flower

  Barbara Johnson (2005). “Daily Splashes of Joy: 365 Gems to Sparkle Your Day”, Thomas Nelson Inc

• The joy of motherhood: what a mother experiences when all her children are in bed

  Barbara Johnson

  Mother, Children, Joy

• 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.

  Barbara Johnson

  People, Joy, Glimpse

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