Barbara Johnson Quotes

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!

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

Change is a process not an event.

Grudges are like hand grenades: it is wise to release them before they destroy you.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Winners see an answer for every problem; losers see a problem in every answer!

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

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

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

No one likes change but babies in diapers.