Best 60 quotes of Jan Karon on MyQuotes

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.

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!

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

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.

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.

Don't fear whatever God lays before you today.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I've got a lot to download on your mercy and grace. I've always rushed up to You and dumped whatever it was and hurried away, fascinated by my own busyness. I want to turn all this over to You slowly, carefully, examining every fragment as I pass it off, so there'll never be any question about it again. Every time I've dumped and run, I've nearly always run back and snatched it out of Your hands. Help me in this.......Right now, I'm certain of only one thing - that You love us, and that's where we all have to begin.

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

Love is an actual need, an urgent requirement of the heart, he read aloud from an old essay on marriage that he found in his files.Every properly constituted human being who entertains an appreciation of loneliness...and looks forward to happiness and content feels the necessity of loving. Without it, life is unfinished.

Love is an endless act of forgiveness.

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

My grandmother influenced me so deeply.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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'.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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?

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.

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

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.

I have just four words to leave with you. Four words that have spoken volumes of truth into my life.' He wanted the words to stay in the room, to remain long after he had gone. Though no one wished to hear Paul's radical injunction, it had to be told. 'In everything, give thanks.' This was the lifeboat in any crisis. Over and over again, he had learned this, and over and over again, he had to be reminded.

I have never seen so many ugly dresses. I cannot find this dress, which was woven out of daydreams and naiveté.

I thought of you when I read this quote from "Come Rain or Come Shine (A Mitford Novel)" by Jan Karon - "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.

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

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.

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.