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

  • 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.

    People  
  • I've put everything I had and I've given my readers 120 percent, and that's the truth.

    "Leaving Mitford: Jan Karon on Life and Writing". Interview with Belinda Elliot, www.cbn.com.
  • 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 (2011). “Jan Karons Mitford Years: The First Five Novels”, p.893, Penguin
  • Love is an endless act of forgiveness.

  • 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.

  • And it can be a way of healing.

    Healing   Way  
  • Phillipians 4:13 for Pete's sake!

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

    Jan Karon (2006). “The Mitford Bedside Companion: A Treasury of Favorite Mitford Moments, Author Reflections on the Bestselling Se lling Series, and More. Much More.”, p.88, Penguin
  • 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.

    Jan Karon (2007). “Home to Holly Springs”, p.289, Penguin
  • 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.

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

    Writing   Firsts   Hungry  
    Jan Karon (2006). “The Mitford Bedside Companion: A Treasury of Favorite Mitford Moments, Author Reflections on the Bestselling Se lling Series, and More. Much More.”, p.72, Penguin
  • Food is a great way of communicating.

    Way  
    Jan Karon (2006). “The Mitford Bedside Companion: A Treasury of Favorite Mitford Moments, Author Reflections on the Bestselling Se lling Series, and More. Much More.”, p.72, Penguin
  • 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.

    Jan Karon (2011). “Jan Karons Mitford Years: The First Five Novels”, p.643, Penguin
  • I have confidence that God is with us in all things, both tender and tough

    Jan Karon (2014). “Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good: The New Mitford Novel”, p.319, Penguin
  • Easter is never deserved.

    Jan Karon (2007). “Home to Holly Springs”, p.285, Penguin
  • Let me say that I absolutely loved writing 'A Common Life,' because it was a book about love.

    Book   Writing   Common  
    "Leaving Mitford: Jan Karon on Life and Writing". Interview with Belinda Elliott, www.cbn.com.
  • 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.

    Jan Karon (2005). “These High, Green Hills”, Penguin Books
  • In Ireland there’s no such thing as bad weather ~~~ only the wrong clothes. (In the Company of Others)

  • 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'.

    Years  
    Jan Karon (2005). “At Home in Mitford”, Penguin Books
  • I have raced against the clock since I went into advertising at the age of eighteen.

  • 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.

    "Leaving Mitford: Jan Karon on Life and Writing". Interview with Belinda Elliott, www.cbn.com.
  • 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.

  • 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.

    Jan Karon (2003). “In This Mountain”, p.157, Penguin
  • There may be circumstances in this life that God uses to keep bringing us back to Him, looking for His grace.

    Jan Karon (2011). “Jan Karons Mitford Years: Novels Six Through Nine; Plus a Father Tim Novel”, p.1578, Penguin
  • 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.

    Jan Karon (2006). “The Mitford Bedside Companion: A Treasury of Favorite Mitford Moments, Author Reflections on the Bestselling Se lling Series, and More. Much More.”, p.150, Penguin
  • I remember the first time I held my book, my first book in my hands. I cannot tell you how it moved me.

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

  • My grandmother influenced me so deeply.

  • Lord, make me a blessing to someone today

    Jan Karon (2006). “The Mitford Bedside Companion: A Treasury of Favorite Mitford Moments, Author Reflections on the Bestselling Se lling Series, and More. Much More.”, p.160, Penguin
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