Barbara Johnson Quotes

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• 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.

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  Love, Change, God

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

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• 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.

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  Believe, Joy, Forgiving

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

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• 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.

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  Attitude, Keys, Play

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

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

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  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Laughter is to life what shock absorbers are to automobiles. It won't take the potholes out of the road, but it sure makes the ride smoother

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  Inspirational, Positive, 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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• Whatever it is probably won't go away, so we might as well live and laugh through it. When we double over laughing, we're bending so we won't break. If you think your particular troubles are too heavy and too traumatic to laugh about, remember that laughing is like changing a baby's diaper. It doesn't solve any problems permanently, but it makes things more acceptable for awhile.

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  Baby, Laughter, Thinking

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• If things are tough, remember that every flower that ever bloomed had to go through a whole lot of dirt to get there. The almighty Father will use life's reverses to move you forward. So do not keep grieving about a bitter experience. The present is slipping by while you are regretting the past and worrying about the future. Regret will not prevent tomorrow's sorrows; it will only rob today of its strength.

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  Regret, Flower, Adversity

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

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• Faith is seeing light with your heart when all your eyes see is darkness.

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  Encouragement, Heart, Eye

  Barbara Johnson (1996). “The Joy Journal”, Thomas Nelson

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• Live every day to fulfill your personal mission. God has a reason for whatever season you are living through right now. A season of loss or blessing? A season of activity or hibernation? A season of growth or incubation? You may think you're on a detour, but God knows the best way for you to reach your destination.

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  Loss, Blessing, Thinking

  Barbara Johnson (2000). “Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around”, p.54, Zondervan

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• When you live in the present moment, time stands still. Accept your circumstances and live them. If there is an experience ahead of you, have it! But if worries stand in your way, put them off until tomorrow. Give yourself a day off from worry. You deserve it. Some people live with a low-grade anxiety tugging at their spirit all day long. They go to sleep with it, wake up with it, carry it around at home, in town, to church, and with friends. Here's a remedy: Take the present moment and find something to laugh at. People who laugh, last.

  Barbara Johnson

  Sleep, Home, Giving

  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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• We can never untangle all the woes in other people's lives. We can't produce miracles overnight. But we can bring a cup of cool water to a thirsty soul, or a scoop of laughter to a lonely heart.

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  Lonely, Laughter, Heart

  Barbara Johnson (2000). “Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around”, p.115, Zondervan

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• Motherhood: if it were going to be easy, it never would have started with something called labor.

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  Motherhood, Easy, Labor

  Barbara Johnson (2000). “Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around”, p.175, Zondervan

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• Attitude is the mind's paintbrush; it can color any situation.

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  Attitude, Color, Mind

  Barbara Johnson (2000). “Leaking Laffs Between Pampers and Depends”, p.290, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• All we can take with us to heaven is what we leave behind in the lives we touch.

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  Heaven, Behinds

  Barbara Johnson (2002). “Barbara Johnson”, Thomas Nelson

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• True love doesn't have a happy ending, because true love never ends. Letting go is one way of saying I love you.

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  True Love, Letting Go, Goodbye

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• 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.

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  Light, Joy, Looks

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

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

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  Patience, Optimism, Gears

  Barbara Johnson (2008). “When Your Child Breaks Your Heart: Help for Hurting Moms”, p.134, Revell

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• The secret of growing younger is counting blessings, not birthdays.

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  Blessing, Secret, Growing

  Barbara Johnson (2000). “Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around”, p.73, Zondervan

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• We cannot protect ourselves from trouble, but we can dance through the puddles of life with a rainbow smile, twirling the only umbrella we need -- the umbrella of God's love.

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  Rainbow, Needs, Puddles

  Barbara Johnson (2000). “Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around”, p.69, Zondervan

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• Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional

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  Pain, Misery, Inevitable

  Barbara Johnson (1995). “Stick a Geranium in Your Hat and Be Happy!”, W Publishing Group

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• It never hurts your eyesight to look on the bright side of things.

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  Hurt, Looks, Sides

  Barbara Johnson (1996). “The Joy Journal”, Thomas Nelson

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• How will you use the years God gives you? Will you be remembered for being a fault-finder? Or will you be known for your quick smile, the laugh lines around your eyes, and the twinkle deep within? After all, God gives you your face, but you provide the expression!

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  Attitude, Eye, Expression

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• Worry is the senseless process of cluttering up tomorrows opportunities with leftover problems from today

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  Christian, Opportunity, Worry

  Barbara Johnson (2000). “Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around”, p.201, Zondervan

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• I'm glad God has all the answers, 'cause I barely understand the questions.

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  Encouragement, Answers, Causes

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• Prayer is asking for rain and faith is carrying the umbrella.

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  Faith, Prayer, Rain

  Barbara Johnson (1996). “I'm So Glad You Told Me What I Didn't Wanna Hear”, p.98, Thomas Nelson Inc

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