Top 100 Jan Karon Quotes
#1. Love is an endless act of forgiveness.
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#2. I worried too much about what others thought - I can tell you it's a tragic waste of time and energy and pokes God in the eye.
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#3. Phillipians 4:13 for Pete's sake!
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#4. So here is what my advice would be: If God has given you a dream, you'd better get cracking because He wants you to use it. That's why He gives them to us in the first place.
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#5. My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry.
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#6. Professor Morgan had called [Dooley] 'a lad of few words.' That wasn't true. There were words spilling around in him all the time. Too many words. His problem was organizing them.
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#7. There are so many people who don't know small towns exist. When I write, I want to give my readers two things: one is a sense of consolation, and two, I want to make them laugh.
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#8. Let me say that I absolutely loved writing 'A Common Life,' because it was a book about love.
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#9. You love him, I can see it."
"More than anything."
That alone should be enough, he thought, but of course it never is. Courage has to come in there somewhere, and perseverance and forbearance and patience and all the rest. A job of work, as Uncle Billy would say, but worth it and then some.
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#10. Cynthia came in quietly and set a cup of tea before him. He kissed her hand, inexpressibly grateful, and she went back into the kitchen. When we view the little things with thanksgiving, even they become big things.
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#11. I live in a village where people still care about each other, largely.
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#12. Paul said in the second epistle ... the time is coming when people will not put up with sound doctrine ... they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own desires, and will turn from the truth and wander away to myths.
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#13. He liked familiar things, things that had been worn in by good people, people he could trust.
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#14. I stepped out on faith to follow my lifelong dream of being an author. I made real sacrifices and took big risks. But living, it seems to me, is largely about risk.
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#15. Writing is a way of processing our lives. And it can be a way of healing.
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#16. Then he prayed for ( ... ) and all the rest who made up his world.
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#17. graced lawn parties at Fernbank." Hoppy stood and applauded.
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#18. There's nothing trite about being consoled in a world that does everything in its power to deliver sorrow.
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#19. Alis volat propiss. (She flies with her own wings.)
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#20. Why can't life always be lived under the stars,' she said, 'with great music and family and friends?
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#21. A loved one from us has gone, A voice we love is stilled. A place is vacant in our home, Which never will be filled. Estelle Woodhouse, 1898-1987
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#22. Don't fear whatever God lays before you today.
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#23. Give us grace when we hurt each other . . . to recognize and acknowledge our fault, and to seek each other's forgiveness and yours.
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#25. Thank you for patience that you may reward it, thank you for brokenness that you may mend it, thank you for love that you may enlarge it above our most heartfelt expectations.
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#26. Him.You are good, O God, and You are faithful. Tenderize and soften our Lenten hearts, we pray, lest they grow brittle and break.
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#27. Lord Jesus, stay with us, for evening is at hand and the day is past; be our companion in the way, kindle our hearts, and awaken hope, that we may know thee as thou art revealed in Scripture and the breaking of bread. Grant this for the sake of thy love, amen.
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#28. But "common sense is not faith," Oswald Chambers had written, "and faith is not common sense.
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#29. I can't say I have any confidence in confidence. I have confidence that God is with us in all things, both tender and tough.
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#30. There may be circumstances in this life that God uses to keep bringing us back to Him, looking for His grace.
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#31. For a very long time, I wrote a book a year, and was eager and willing to do it, to put bread on the table, to have my work out there. Now I must write a book every two years, and that's never enough time, either.
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#32. One must begin somewhere, sometime, to let go of the bitterness, or be eaten alive and the marrow sucked out.
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#33. And it can be a way of healing.
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#34. Are you reading your Bible?"
Ah, well ... I was."
And then you quit."
You got it."
Then, you can expect to be weak on one of your flanks, and that's precisely where the Enemy will come after you with a vengeance.
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#35. one who possessed Beauty without Vanity,"' he said aloud to Barnabas. '"Strength without Insolence, / Courage without Ferocity, / And all the virtues of Man without his Vices.
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#36. One of the things that makes a dead leaf fall to the ground is the bud of the new leaf that pushes it off the limb.
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#37. When the trees and the power lines crashed around you, when the very roof gave way above you, when the light turned to darkness and water turned to dust, did you call on Him?
When you called on Him, was He somewhere up there, or was He as near as your very breath?
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#38. My life is extremely full and wretchedly busy, and I feel that while my life drains energy from my work, my work in turn drains energy from my life. The result is, I am always playing catch-up spiritually. That is my thorn.
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#39. He turned away for a moment, smacked by the beauty of complete surprise.
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#40. You could tell a lot about people who would stop what they were doing to watch the Almighty go about His business (said as several stopped to watch a beautiful sunset, Chapter 14).
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#41. Charles Dickens said, It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens the temper - so cry away.
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#42. Rejoice! Know that I am with you and for you and will never leave you; take courage that I will fight for you and be your shield and buckler and provide for you when you are old; I will supply your every need, I will give you victory over death, I have prepared a place for you in heaven
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#43. Merry Christmas!' someone shouted.
He wiped his eyes with the back of his hand.
'Merry Christmas!'
'Merry Christmas!'
'C-cookies for ever'body!' Sammy hollered. And looking both ways, they all fled across to the light, and the warmth, and the books, and the mystery.
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#44. We took the parkway to Linville Falls, 221 to Marion, then I-40 here. The Alleluia Highway, we decided to call it.
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#45. The dark book has been terribly popular. Dark characters, dysfunction, and all sorts of things from reality that are true in our world.
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#46. Bottom line, wasn't life itself a special occasion?
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#47. Publishing is, by its nature, about deadlines, and deadlines are toxic.
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#48. I really care about my readers. I care about anyone who reads my books.
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#49. Lord, make me a blessing to someone today.
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#50. We look for visions of heaven," Oswald Chambers had written, "and we never dream that all the time God is in the commonplace things and people around us." He
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#51. Sometimes you have to gag on fancy before you can appreciate plain, th' way I see it. For too many years, I ate fancy, I dressed fancy, I talked fancy. A while back, I decided to start talkin' th' way I was raised t' talk, and for th' first time in forty years, I can understand what I'm sayin'.
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#52. Thank you, God, for loving me, and for sending your Son to die for my sins. I sincerely repent of my sins, and receive Christ as my personal savior. Now, as your child, I turn my entire life over to you. Amen.
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#53. When I speak of God's will, it helps to know that he wants the best for us. If you can't believe he's there, pray anyway. If you feel he's cheap and withholding, thank him anyway. There will come a time when you'll thank him even for the hard places.
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#54. The notion of whether there would be some kind of organization in this potluck deal? Shouldn't somebody get on the phone and call the guest list? What if they ended up with too many deviled eggs?
'There is no such thing as too many deviled eggs,' said Cynthia.
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#55. As worthless as guilt was known to be, he couldn't help feeling it, seeing his wife work herself to exhaustion for a parish tea that would last only two hours.
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#56. In World War One, they called it shell shock. Second time around, they called it battle fatigue. After 'Nam, it was post-traumatic stress disorder.
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#57. I try to put my heart out there to everybody. They don't have to be Christian. For example, I have lots of Jewish readers. I love my Jewish readers.
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#58. The windows were open to morning air embroidered with birdsong.
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#59. As long as you have any floor space at all, you have room for books! Just make two stacks of books the same height, place them three or four feet apart, lay a board across them, and repeat. Viola! Bookshelves!
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#60. He eyed in the far corner of the room the carton of books they'd schlepped across the pond(ocean) They were both fearful of being stuck without a decent book, and who knew they would find everything from Virgil to Synge on the shelves of a fishing lodge?
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#61. My grandmother influenced me so deeply.
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#62. The firefly only shines when on the wing, So it is with us
when we stop, we darken.
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#63. It was a wonderful life. To have a stage play right in this room, with real people acting real parts.
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#64. Even the roughest character, underneath all that hurt, is someone who wants to love and be loved.
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#65. The rector wondered if the joy that people seemed so expert at containing somehow transferred to their dogs, who had nothing at all to hide.
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#66. Listening is among the most generous ways to give. When a loved one talks to us - whether their words appear to be deep or shallow - listen. For in some way, they are baring their souls.
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#67. He liked being in a place where everything from forgetfulness to homicide might be blamed on the heat.
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#68. Cutcutcutcutcutcut . . . At 4:10, the machine lifted off the roof of Mitford Hospital and, in the starless night, burned itself away.
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#69. I've put everything I had and I've given my readers 120 percent, and that's the truth.
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#70. Give me faith, Lord, to know Your Presence as surely as I know the beating of my own heart. I've felt so far from You ...
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#71. I'd like you to know that I have forgiven him. Again and again. Once done, course, back comes the Enemy to persecute and persecute, and I must ante up to God and forgive yet again.
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#72. While most people took family for granted, he [Father Tim] took it for grace.
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#73. No matter how far we travel, the memories will follow in the baggage car.
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#75. The standing fields [ready to harvest]were the legions who hadn't filled their God-vacuum with the One who was born to fill it; the standing fields were those who waited for someone to reach out and speak the truth, and tell them how they might be saved.
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#76. In his bachelor's heart of hearts, he loved pie with an intensity that alarmed him. Yet, when he was offered seconds, he usually refused. "Wouldn't you like another piece of this nice coconut pie, Father?" he might be asked. "No, I don't believe I'd care for anymore," he'd say. An outright lie!
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#77. When we turn from our sin, and have the blessed forgiveness of the Almighty, then we can ask Him to run things, and let Him be in charge.
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#78. MITFORD BOOKS BY JAN KARON At Home in Mitford A Light in the Window These High, Green Hills Out to Canaan A New Song A Common Life In This Mountain Shepherds Abiding Light from Heaven Home to Holly Springs In the Company of Others Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good
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#79. That was his favorite thing about books - they took you off to other people's lives an' places, but you could still set in your own chair by th'oil heater, warm as a mouse in a churn.
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#80. From "Come Rain or Come Shine" by Jan Karon pg. 259
In regard to watching a sunset, "You could tell a lot about people who would stop what they were doin' to watch the Almighty go about his business.
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#81. I believe that's when God first started speaking to my heart
the very day I started speaking to His!
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#82. My friend, if you keep your eyes on Christians, you will be disappointed every day of your life. Your hope is to keep your eyes on Christ." "Yes,
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#83. Knitting, he thought, was a comfort to the soul.
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#84. Well, I think some people are very happy in retirement. And in a year and a half I'm going to see how happy I feel in retirement. I'm just going to not work quite so hard, but I'll continue to write as long as God gives me breath.
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#85. Maybe it's because he never had any control over what was happening to him as a boy. Being late was somehow a way of taking charge.
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#87. Well, I'm going to church. But i've got to tell you that it's full of hypocrites.
My friend, if you keep your eyes on Christians, you will be disappointed every day of your life. Your hope is to keep your eyes on Christ.
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#88. I have raced against the clock since I went into advertising at the age of eighteen.
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#89. I learned not to be so bitterly defeated when my fiction took a beating from editors. I learned in advertising to color in the lines and have my work done on time and to make it the very best it could be.
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#90. Love God, be strong, be safe, be happy.
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#91. Bodily fatigue, which nearly always accompanies this hateful malady, can wear down the spirit. And how can the Holy Spirit work with a vessel that's leaking as fast as he can fill it? "If
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#92. When I open many books, or most leading women's magazines, or see almost all TV shows, I don't find myself at all. I am completely anonymous. My value system is not there.
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#93. In Ireland there's no such thing as bad weather ~~~ only the wrong clothes.
(In the Company of Others)
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#94. The significant, life-forming times are the dull, in-between times.
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#95. This is a gift that God has given me. I'm not smart enough to write for everybody, but it's the love in these books that comes from Him and goes out to my reading audience. I'm forever grateful for that. It's a privilege.
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#96. So many people don't know that God loves them. They feel, 'Why would God love me? Why would He be interested in me?'
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#97. We think we dare not be satisfied with the small measure of spiritual knowledge, experience and love that has been given to us, and that we must constantly be looking forward eagerly for the highest good.'
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#98. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art. JL Borges
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#100. Every saint has a past, the sixteenth-century poet had said, and every sinner has a future.
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