Quotes from Jan Karon

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.

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

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

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

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.

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!

I stepped out on faith to follow my lifelong dream of being an author. I made real sacrifices and took big risks. But living, it seems to me, is largely about risk.

Rejoice! Know that I am with you and for you and will never leave you; take courage that I will fight for you and be your shield and buckler and provide for you when you are old; I will supply your every need, I will give you victory over death, I have prepared a place for you in heaven

But "common sense is not faith," Oswald Chambers had written, "and faith is not common sense.

Don't fear whatever God lays before you today.

Love is an endless act of forgiveness.

Thank you, God, for loving me, and for sending your Son to die for my sins. I sincerely repent of my sins, and receive Christ as my personal savior. Now, as your child, I turn my entire life over to you. Amen.

In everything, give thanks.

Was he willing to blend into the life of another human being for the rest of his days, and have hers blend into his? That, of course, was the Bible's bottom line on marriage: one flesh. Not separate entities, not two autonomous beings merely coming together at dinnertime or brushing past one another in the hallway, holding on to their singleness, guarding against invasion. One flesh!" (p. 207).

Go, and be as the butterfly

He turned away for a moment, smacked by the beauty of complete surprise.

No matter how far we travel, the memories will follow in the baggage car.

Father, make me a blessing to someone today, through Christ our Lord. Amen.

Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a book.

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.

You could tell a lot about people who would stop what they were doing to watch the Almighty go about His business.