Quotes from 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. Voila! Bookshelves!

Lord, make me a blessing to someone today.

I'd like you to know that I've forgiven him. Again and again. Once done, of course, back comes the Enemy to persecute and prosecute, and I must ante up to God and forgive yet again.

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.

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

Well, I'm going to church. But i've got to tell you that it's full of hypocrites. 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.

Easter is never deserved.

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.

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

Phillipians 4:13 for Pete's sake!

There may be circumstances in this life that God uses to keep bringing us back to Him, looking for His grace.

Sorrow and joy, he thought, so inextricably entwined that he could scarcely tell where one left off and the other began.

In Ireland there's no such thing as bad weather ~~~ only the wrong clothes.

When the trees and the power lines crashed around you, when the very roof gave way above you, when the light turned to darkness and water turned to dust, did you call on Him? When you called on Him, was He somewhere up there, or was He as near as your very breath?

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.

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.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness.

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....

Alis volat propiss. (She flies with her own wings.)

weary of k knowing too much and understanding too little.

Listening is among the most generous ways to give. When a loved one talks to us— whether their words appear to be deep or shallow— listen. For in some way, they are baring their souls.

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'.

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.

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.