Jan Karon

“At a time when he really needed to let go, he was holding on. To Lace. To his stuff. Let go, let…

— Jan Karon

Give me faith, Lord, to know Your Presence as surely as I know the beating of my own heart. I've felt so…

— Jan Karon

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

— Jan Karon

“Their counselor had taught them to pray before big talks, to be sensitive to timing.”

— Jan Karon

“She had called Cynthia then to come out and speak the truth, and Cynthia had uplifted and encouraged her.”

— Jan Karon

Even the roughest character, underneath all that hurt, is someone who wants to love and be loved.

— Jan Karon

“Pray, that’s what we can do, have done, are doing, and will do. Out of our hands.”

— Jan Karon

I have confidence that God is with us in all things, both tender and tough

— Jan Karon

“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…

— Jan Karon

“I'd like you to know that I've forgiven him. Again and again. Once done, of course, back comes the Enemy to persecute…

— Jan Karon

“He eyed in the far corner of the room the carton of books they'd schlepped across the pond(ocean) They were both fearful…

— Jan Karon

There are so many people who don't know small towns exist. When I write, I want to give my readers two things:…

— Jan Karon

Cynics will say there are no good people out there. And if you read the papers and watch TV news you could…

— Jan Karon

For a very long time, I wrote a book a year, and was eager and willing to do it, to put bread…

— Jan Karon

Cynthia came in quietly and set a cup of tea before him. He kissed her hand, inexpressibly grateful, and she went back…

— Jan Karon

When the trees and the power lines crashed around you, when the very roof gave way above you, when the light turned…

— Jan Karon

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

— Jan Karon

I have raced against the clock since I went into advertising at the age of eighteen.

— Jan Karon

“We decided he might like to know about the people and places that belong to him now so he can begin a…

— Jan Karon

“Thomas à Kempis: “Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a book.”

— Jan Karon

“Just be who you are,’ said Beth, ‘because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.”

— Jan Karon

“Deep in their roots,’ Roethke had said, ‘all flowers keep the light.”

— Jan Karon

“We must stop listening to voices from the past--and we must stop immediately.--Father Tim”

— Jan Karon

When we turn from our sin, and have the blessed forgiveness of the Almighty, then we can ask Him to run things,…

— Jan Karon

I learned not to be so bitterly defeated when my fiction took a beating from editors. I learned in advertising to color…

— Jan Karon

“Listen. Listening is among the most generous ways to give. When a loved one talks to us—whether their words appear to be…

— Jan Karon

“I like what E. B. White said: ‘A really companionable and indispensable dog is an accident of nature. You can’t get it…

— Jan Karon

Well, I think some people are very happy in retirement. And in a year and a half I'm going to see how…

— Jan Karon

“He remembered the gravestone of a woman parishioner in the churchyard of St. John's in the Grove. DEMURE AT LAST, it read.…

— Jan Karon

“If thou indeed derive thy light from Heaven, Then, to the measure of that heaven-born light, Shine, Poet! In thy place, and…

— Jan Karon

“The rector wondered if the joy that people seemed so expert at containing somehow transferred to their dogs, who had nothing at…

— Jan Karon

“Peace . . . and plenty . . . graciously provided by God who created us for himself, and who loves each of us devoutly, devotedly, steadfastly, forever.”

— Jan Karon

“...I've forgiven him. Again and again. Once done, of course, back comes the Enemy to persecute and prosecute, and I must ante…

— Jan Karon

I stepped out on faith to follow my lifelong dream of being an author. I made real sacrifices and took big risks.…

— Jan Karon

I try to put my heart out there to everybody. They don't have to be Christian. For example, I have lots of…

— Jan Karon

So here is what my advice would be: If God has given you a dream, you'd better get cracking because He wants…

— Jan Karon