Quotes from Barbara Johnson

Life is too short to spend it being angry, bored, or dull.

Your face is a billboard advertising your philosophy of life!

We spend our lives dreaming of the future, not realizing that a little of it slips away every day.

To be in your children's memories tomorrow, you have to be in their lives today.

To be in your children's memories tomorrow, You have to be in their lives today.

Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.

Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.

Life is hard and then we die!

There s only one way to deal with misery...I say Avoid it

Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends.

I've gone to look for myself. If i should return before I get back, keep me here

never let a problem to be solved become more important than the person to be loved.

Men are like parking spaces, the good ones are already taken and the ones left are running out of their metres

Smile...it kills time between disasters.

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.

We can trust God with all our problems, all our heartaches, and especially with all our long-term anxieties. Every morning as we wake ourselves up with a splash of joy we can say, "WHATEVER, LORD!

We can choose to gather to our hearts the thorns of disappointment, failure, loneliness, and dismay due to our present situation, or we can gather the flowers of God's grace, unbounding love, abiding presence, and unmatched joy.

We can face whatever comes once we have relinquished our lives and the lives of our loved ones to Him. He is the God we can trust for strength each day. He is the One with all the love and understanding, who has a clear and eternal purpose for us.

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.

Authority seems to be nothing other than the vanishing-point of textuality. And Nature is authority whose textual origins have been forgotten.

With so many cesspools to fall into in life, we need a spring we can go to for splashes of joy — a spring full of living water that only Jesus provides. The foundation of all joy for Christians is that we can live as though Christ died yesterday, rose today, and is coming tomorrow.

Smile...it kills time between disasters.

Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.

God will never let you sink under your circumstances. He always provides a safety net and His love always encircles.