Jan Karon Quotes

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Preacher, I took Rose f'r better or worse, but I declare, she's much worse than I took 'er for!

Jan Karon
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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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.

Jan Karon
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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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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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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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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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.

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

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

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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...

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

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

Jan Karon