Jan Karon Quotes

I live in a village where people still care about each other, largely.

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.

Easter is never deserved.

Phillipians 4:13 for Pete's sake!

Love is an endless act of forgiveness.

There may be circumstances in this life that God uses to keep bringing us back to Him, looking for His grace.

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.

So many people don't know that God loves them. They feel, 'Why would God love me? Why would He be interested in me?

...weary of k knowing too much and understanding too little.

The firefly only shines when on the wing, So it is with us--when we stop, we darken.

Loving can be hard. Sometimes we don't feel loving, but it isn't all about feeling. Very often it is about will. Practice that if you can.

My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry.

I made real sacrifices and took big risks. But living, it seems to me, is largely about risk.

Writing is a way of processing our lives. And it can be a way of healing.

Bottom line, wasn’t life itself a special occasion?

Lord, make me a blessing to someone today

In Ireland there’s no such thing as bad weather ~~~ only the wrong clothes. (In the Company of Others)

There's nothing trite about being consoled in a world that does everything in its power to deliver sorrow.

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.

Let me say that I absolutely loved writing 'A Common Life,' because it was a book about love.

I really care about my readers. I care about anyone who reads my books.

Publishing is, by its nature, about deadlines, and deadlines are toxic.

Food is a great way of communicating.

I've put everything I had and I've given my readers 120 percent, and that's the truth.

I grew up hearing words like snakeroot, sassafras, mullein - things that had wondrous, mysterious sounds in their names.

I have raced against the clock since I went into advertising at the age of eighteen.

I remember the first time I held my book, my first book in my hands. I cannot tell you how it moved me.

Cynics will say there are no good people out there. And if you read the papers and watch TV news you could be convinced of that. But there are good people.

And it can be a way of healing.

My grandmother influenced me so deeply.

Even the roughest character, underneath all that hurt, is someone who wants to love and be loved.

The dark book has been terribly popular. Dark characters, dysfunction, and all sorts of things from reality that are true in our world.

Let's just say that I was raised by my grandparents.

I believe that's when God first started speaking to my heart--the very day I started speaking to His!

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.

Don't fear whatever God lays before you today.

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.

I have confidence that God is with us in all things, both tender and tough

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.

Sometimes you have to gag on fancy before you can appreciate plain.

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.

The significant, life-forming times are the dull, in-between times.

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.

It was a wonderful life. To have a stage play right in this room, with real people acting real parts.

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.

... for fog was merely a cloud that wasn't too smitten with itself to visit terra firma.

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.

While most people took family for granted, he [Father Tim] took it for grace.

Why can't life always be lived under the stars, ' she said, 'with great music and family and friends?

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.