Jan Karon Quotes - Page 2

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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'.

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

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

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.

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.

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

And it can be a way of healing.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Food is a great way of communicating.