Let me say that I absolutely loved writing 'A Common Life,' because it was a book about love. — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
I have confidence that God is with us in all things, both tender and tough — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
Even the roughest character, underneath all that hurt, is someone who wants to love and be loved. — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
“Boldly! That was the great and powerful key. Preach boldly! Love boldly! Jog boldly! And most crucial of all, do not approach… — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“She thought that one of the hardest parts of marriage was being loving when both partners were exhausted or wounded at the… — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
Love is an actual need, an urgent requirement of the heart, he read aloud from an old essay on marriage that he… — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
“And so I enjoyed the warm feelings, the stuff of the heart, when it was present between us, as it sometimes was,… — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
“It’s not the sort of thing romantics wish to hear, but I found that in the end, love must be a kind… — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
“One of the things that makes a dead leaf fall to the ground is the bud of the new leaf that pushes… — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
“Oh, Timothy, how could you not have loved someone all these years? Loving absolutely seeps from you, like a spring that bubbles… — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
So many people don't know that God loves them. They feel, 'Why would God love me? Why would He be interested in… — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
In Ireland there’s no such thing as bad weather ~~~ only the wrong clothes. (In the Company of Others) — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
“Sorrow and joy, he thought, so inextricably entwined that he could scarcely tell where one left off and the other began.” — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
“Maybe the best way to honor the deceased was to laugh with the living.” — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
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… — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
This is a gift that God has given me. I'm not smart enough to write for everybody, but it's the love in these books… — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
The firefly only shines when on the wing, So it is with us--when we stop, we darken. — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
“For one thing, telling a lie is like eating peanuts. One leads to another. In no time at all, you’ve gone through a bagful.”… — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
“And so I enjoyed the warm feelings, the stuff of the heart, when it was present between us, as it sometimes was, even in… — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
