Jan Karon

And it can be a way of healing.

— Jan Karon

Phillipians 4:13 for Pete's sake!

— Jan Karon

“RATS-IN-A-POKE!”

— Jan Karon

Easter is never deserved.

— Jan Karon

“Listening is among the most generous ways to give.”

— Jan Karon

...weary of k knowing too much and understanding too little.

— Jan Karon

“Fear is one of the Enemy’s deadliest strategies.”

— Jan Karon

“Thank you, God, for second chances,”

— Jan Karon

“She was going to have to learn to trust God. Completely”

— Jan Karon

“We’re not thinking what if,’ he said. ‘We’re thinkin’ when.”

— Jan Karon

Lord, make me a blessing to someone today

— Jan Karon

“God is in love with you, brother. He made you for himself.”

— Jan Karon

“That’s why growing old together is lovely. You have someone to complain to.”

— Jan Karon

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

— Jan Karon

“He liked being in a place where everything from forgetfulness to homicide might be blamed on the heat.”

— Jan Karon

“He’d been amped for a long time; actually, everybody he knew was amped. He would like to spend the rest of his…

— Jan Karon

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

— Jan Karon

There was a lot of brokenness in my family. Let's just say that I was raised by my grandparents.

— Jan Karon

I live in a village where people still care about each other, largely.

— Jan Karon

“When things worked, they were theirs; when they failed, they were his.”

— Jan Karon

This is a gift that God has given me. I'm not smart enough to write for everybody, but it's the love in…

— Jan Karon

“Lon Birdie had said, ‘Sammy has his daddy’s temper, you don’t want to cross him.’ But Sammy would be crossed in this…

— Jan Karon

Loving can be hard. Sometimes we don't feel loving, but it isn't all about feeling. Very often it is about will. Practice…

— Jan Karon

“. . . whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely . . . think…

— Jan Karon

“How could he do possibly want to do this fool thing?…Maybe it wasn’t about wanting or not wanting. Though he was beyond…

— Jan Karon

“Boldly! That was the great and powerful key. Preach boldly! Love boldly! Jog boldly! And most crucial of all, do not approach…

— Jan Karon

“What is your hope,’ said Paul, ‘for any ministry you may undertake?’ ‘To help people love God so they can learn to…

— Jan Karon

“Criminal,’ Cynthia called his inability to kick back and let circumstances take their course. In his book, circumstances without close supervision had…

— Jan Karon

Love is an actual need, an urgent requirement of the heart, he read aloud from an old essay on marriage that he…

— Jan Karon

“In his bachelor's heart of hearts, he loved pie with an intensity that alarmed him. Yet, when he was offered seconds, he…

— Jan Karon

“Was he willing to blend into the life of another human being for the rest of his days, and have hers blend…

— Jan Karon

“In the end, his mother’s memory could not be shamed by a gift from God. Don’t worry about me, she would say,…

— Jan Karon

“All people are children when they sleep. There’s no war in them then . . . They . . . open their…

— Jan Karon

“Her mom said they were to pray for the people her dad and his colleagues were treating, pray for his sound health…

— Jan Karon

“How wonderful that it's possible to ensure our own happiness of another. Is it our job to make a beloved happy? It…

— Jan Karon

“Rejoice! Know that I am with you and for you and will never leave you; take courage that I will fight for…

— Jan Karon

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

— Jan Karon

“to be somewhere safe with somebody good.”

— Jan Karon

My grandmother influenced me so deeply.

— Jan Karon

“In every way, un-forgiveness makes us the victim—”

— Jan Karon