Jan Karon Quotes
Top 79 wise famous quotes and sayings by Jan Karon
Jan Karon Famous Quotes & Sayings
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We are not necessarily doubting," said C. S. Lewis, "that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be." He
Him.You are good, O God, and You are faithful. Tenderize and soften our Lenten hearts, we pray, lest they grow brittle and break.
He liked being in a place where everything from forgetfulness to homicide might be blamed on the heat.
Cutcutcutcutcutcut . . . At 4:10, the machine lifted off the roof of Mitford Hospital and, in the starless night, burned itself away.
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
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.
I remember the first time I held my book, my first book in my hands. I cannot tell you how it moved me.
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.
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.
The dark book has been terribly popular. Dark characters, dysfunction, and all sorts of things from reality that are true in our world.
God our Father, Lord and Savior, thank you for your love and favor, bless this food and drink we pray, and Irene who shares with me today. Amen.
It was a wonderful life. To have a stage play right in this room, with real people acting real parts.
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.
I grew up hearing words like snakeroot, sassafras, mullein - things that had wondrous, mysterious sounds in their names.
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.
Sorrow and joy, he thought, so inextricably entwined that he could scarcely tell where one left off and the other began.
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.
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.
My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry.
Why can't life always be lived under the stars,' she said, 'with great music and family and friends?
One must begin somewhere, sometime, to let go of the bitterness, or be eaten alive and the marrow sucked out.
In Ireland there's no such thing as bad weather ~~~ only the wrong clothes.
(In the Company of Others)
(In the Company of Others)
Father Tim: Know that God has a plan for your future. Watch and wait for his timing, and when it comes, hitch a ride. You'll know.
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.
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 ...
Charles Dickens said, It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens the temper - so cry away.
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,
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.
Give us grace when we hurt each other . . . to recognize and acknowledge our fault, and to seek each other's forgiveness and yours.
There's nothing trite about being consoled in a world that does everything in its power to deliver sorrow.
There may be circumstances in this life that God uses to keep bringing us back to Him, looking for His grace.