Jan Karon Quotes
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I made real sacrifices and took big risks. But living, it seems to me, is largely about risk.
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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.
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I've put everything I had and I've given my readers 120 percent, and that's the truth.
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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.
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Love is an endless act of forgiveness.
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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.
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And it can be a way of healing.
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Phillipians 4:13 for Pete's sake!
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The firefly only shines when on the wing, So it is with us--when we stop, we darken.
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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.
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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.
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My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry.
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Food is a great way of communicating.
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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.
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I have confidence that God is with us in all things, both tender and tough
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Easter is never deserved.
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Let me say that I absolutely loved writing 'A Common Life,' because it was a book about love.
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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.
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In Ireland there’s no such thing as bad weather ~~~ only the wrong clothes. (In the Company of Others)
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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'.
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I have raced against the clock since I went into advertising at the age of eighteen.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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There may be circumstances in this life that God uses to keep bringing us back to Him, looking for His grace.
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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.
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I remember the first time I held my book, my first book in my hands. I cannot tell you how it moved me.
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Let's just say that I was raised by my grandparents.
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My grandmother influenced me so deeply.
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Lord, make me a blessing to someone today
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