Barbara Johnson Quotes - Page 3

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• A thin line separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt. Our lives constantly walk that line. When we slip off on one side or the other, we're taken by surprise. But who said there wouldn't be surprises? Knowing God just means that all the rules will be fair; at the end of our life drama, we'll see that. We never know how things will turn out, but if we know with certainty they will make sense regardless of how they turn out, we're on to something.

  Barbara Johnson

  Life, Hurt, Laughter

  Patsy Clairmont, Marilyn Meberg, Barbara Johnson, Luci Swindoll (1997). “Joy Breaks: 90 Devotions to Celebrate, Simplify, and Add Laughter to Your Life”, Zondervan Publishing Company

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• No one likes change... but babies in diapers.

  Barbara Johnson

  Baby, Diapers, Likes

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• Your face is a billboard advertising your philosophy of life!

  Barbara Johnson

  Philosophy, Faces, Advertising

  Barbara Johnson (2000). “Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around”, p.108, Zondervan

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• The attitude of kindness is everyday stuff like a great pair of sneakers. Not frilly. Not fancy. Just plain and comfortable.

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  Attitude, Kindness, Sneakers

  Barbara Johnson (2000). “Leaking Laffs Between Pampers and Depends”, p.63, Thomas Nelson Inc

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

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  Mother, Children, Joy

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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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  People, Joy, Glimpse

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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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  Eye, Rushing, People

  Barbara Johnson (2000). “Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around”, p.103, Zondervan

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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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  Regret, Hate, Past

  "Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around".

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• My karma just ran over my dogma.

  Barbara Johnson

  Karma, Dogma, Ran

  Barbara Johnson (2000). “Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around”, p.163, Zondervan

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• 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."

  Barbara Johnson

  Home, Son, Boys

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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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  Thinking, Age, Would Be

  Barbara Johnson (2000). “Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around”, p.72, Zondervan

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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.

  Barbara Johnson

  Teaching, Reading, Reality

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• Are our ways of teaching students to ask some questions always correlative with our ways of teaching them not to ask - indeed, to be unconscious of - others? Does the educational system exist in order to promulgate knowledge, or is its main function rather to universalize a society’s tacit agreement about what it has decided it does not and cannot know?

  Barbara Johnson

  Educational, Teaching, Agreement

  Barbara Johnson (1988). “A World of Difference”, p.76, JHU Press

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• Forgiveness is a stunning principle, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos.

  Barbara Johnson

  Hate, Principles, Tickets

  Barbara Johnson (2000). “Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around”, p.82, Zondervan

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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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  Naked, Way, Forgotten

  Barbara Johnson (2000). “Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around”, p.127, Zondervan

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• Time mellows people as it mellows wine, as long as the grapes are good. You may set out to be a businesswoman or businessman but in the course of time end up caring for a dying parent, orphaned niece, or disabled brother. You may encounter illness yourself and end up being a writer, touching the heartstrings, not the purse strings of other people. That's why it's best to always be true to yourself and God and to be flexible within His will. He will use you.

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  Time, Brother, Niece

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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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  Life, Dream, Littles

  Barbara Johnson (2000). “Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around”, p.156, Zondervan

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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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  Pain, Kids, Necks

  Barbara Johnson (1996). “The Best of Barbara Johnson: Three Bestselling Works Complete in One Volume”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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• Being codependent means that when you die, someone else's life passes before your eyes.

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  Mean, Eye, Codependent

  Barbara Johnson (2000). “Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around”, p.204, Zondervan

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• Always remember that better days are ahead - if not in this life, in the next.

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  Next, Remember, Better Days

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• Violets are God's apology for February.

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  Apology, Violet, February

  Barbara Johnson (2000). “Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around”, p.22, Zondervan

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• Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to go there right away.

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  Boxing, Heaven, Want

  Barbara Johnson (2000). “Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around”, p.58, Zondervan

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