Barbara Johnson > Quotes

“To be in your children's memories tomorrow,
You have to be in their lives today.”
― Barbara Johnson

“Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.”
― Barbara Johnson

“Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.”
― Barbara Johnson

“Life is hard and then we die!”
― Barbara Johnson

“Cheer Up the worst is yet to come!”
― Barbara Johnson

“Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense regardless of how it turns out. ”
― Barbara Johnson

“There s only one way to deal with misery...I say Avoid it ”
― Barbara Johnson, Pack Up Your Gloomies in a Great Big Box, Then Sit On the Lid and Laugh!

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

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

“Men are like parking spaces, the good ones are already taken and the ones left are running out of their metres”
― Barbara Johnson, Living Somewhere Between Estrogen and Death

“never let a problem to be solved become more important than the person to be loved.”
― barbara johnson

“Smile...it kills time between disasters.”
― Barbara Johnson, Stick a Geranium in Your Hat and Be Happy

“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

“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!”
― Barbara Johnson, Splashes of Joy Mini Book

“Clinical depression: The print your behind makes on the doctor’s examination table. Derange: Kitchen appliance. Usually sits right next to de fridge. Bonding: What chewing gum does between your shoe and the pavement. Repressing: What you’ll be doing to your pants after a thirteen-hour car trip. Healing process: Teaching your dog to walk beside you.2”
― Barbara Johnson, I'm So Glad You Told Me What I Didn't Wanna Hear

“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.”
― Barbara Johnson, Stick a Geranium in Your Hat and Be Happy

“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

“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.”
― Barbara Johnson, Splashes of Joy Mini Book

“Authority seems to be nothing other than the vanishing-point of textuality. And Nature is authority whose textual origins have been forgotten.”
― Barbara Johnson, The Best of Barbara Johnson

“Life is an endless struggle, full of frustrations and challenges. But eventually you find a hairstylist you like!15”
― Barbara Johnson, I'm So Glad You Told Me What I Didn't Wanna Hear

“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.”
― Barbara Johnson, Splashes of Joy Mini Book

“I heard Chuck Swindoll share another refreshing thought on one of his broadcasts. He said that Christians can be like a sack of marbles—unfeeling, unloving, just clacking against each other as they go through life. Or, they can be caring people—like a sack of grapes pressing together to provide a soft, loving place to cushion and comfort each other from the hard crushes of life.”
― Barbara Johnson, Stick a Geranium in Your Hat and Be Happy