Quotes from Jan Karon

He knew only that he must get on with his life, which lately seemed to have passed him by.

Wilderness is good, it gives me perspective. I get small again, the ego deflates.

Paul said in the second epistle to the good chap you were named after, '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.

Something you'd written in a margin," said George, "I can't remember where…'The significant, life-forming times are the dull, in-between times.

Then he turned and went home to the yellow house where he had been given everything and more, none of it especially deserved.

He needed to stop messing up his mind with the future and concentrate on what was at hand.

In the room splashed with golden autumn light, they had drawn together, as close as eggs in a nest.

at his mother's grave and his father's urn.

St. Francis de Sales had spoken ably to that: "Do not look forward to what may happen tomorrow; the same everlasting Father who cares for you today will take care of you tomorrow and every day. Either He will shield you from suffering, or He will give you unfailing strength to bear it.

When you go to court, you're putting yourself in the hands of 12 people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty!!

I think it means to go unfettered by cares, by the infernal bondage of the mortal. Go with a light heart, trusting God and giving thanks. Go and gather unto yourselves so you can pour out to others.

to be somewhere safe with somebody good.

He said what his dad said when he couldn't pray, when his thoughts were too jumbled, when he couldn't think straight: 'Jesus'.

should have just drove this Plymouth on in the door." For some reason he couldn't explain

Cutcutcutcutcutcut . . . At 4:10, the machine lifted off the roof of Mitford Hospital and, in the starless night, burned itself away.

God was in love with him, that he made us for himself.

pray for his sound health and safekeeping, and trust God in everything. She knew such wisdom in her head, but complete trust was, as her mother said, 'yet to build a station in her heart and erect its flag of undisputed possession.

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.

Fancy education isn't everything. You don't need a doctorate to be an intelligent, sensitive, kind, and caring person which you truly, truly are, Harley. Forty boxes of books cannot equal that, I totally promise you.

Lord, here is your servant, Redeemer, made with love and bound by your grace. Thank you for your mercy." (said by character Lace Kavanaugh over a dying dog).

The height of the mountaintop is measured by the drab drudgery of the valley.

came pouring out, nor had he ever heard anything like it; it was so clear

I'm th' roughest ol' cob you ever seen when it comes t' mindin.' That's why I've fought th' Lord s' long, it meant mindin' 'im if I was t' foller 'im. It's about wore me out, fightin' 'im. Not t' say I don't respect 'im, I do. But I don't want t' mind 'im.

Leave it alone. Let God handle it.