"There's nothing trite about being consoled in a……" — Jan Karon
"There's nothing trite about being consoled in a world that does everything in its power to deliver sorrow."
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55 Quotes by Jan Karon
Jan Karon has 55 quotes on this site.
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Well, I think some people are very happy in retirement. And in a year and a half I'm going to…
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Cynthia came in quietly and set a cup of tea before him. He kissed her hand, inexpressibly grateful, and she…
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Loving can be hard. Sometimes we don't feel loving, but it isn't all about feeling. Very often it is about…
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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…
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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…
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In World War One, they called it shell shock. Second time around, they called it battle fatigue. After 'Nam, it…
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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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My grandmother influenced me so deeply.
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Writing is a way of processing our lives. And it can be a way of healing.
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Bottom line, wasn’t life itself a special occasion?
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Food is a great way of communicating,
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Let's just say that I was raised by my grandparents.
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More Consoled Quotes
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O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood…
— Francis of Assisi
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He [God] watched over me before I knew him, and before I learned sense or even distinguished between good and…
— Saint Patrick
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I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset…
— Earl Warren
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Most people use music as a couch; they want to be pillowed on it, relaxed and consoled for the stress…
— Aaron Copland
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Lord, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to…
— Unknown Author
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Blessed the one who meditates on death each day and destroys the base passions lurking in the vines of the…
— Ephrem the Syrian
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I am consoled by the fact that the Lord knows how to work and how to act, even with insufficient…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Far from being disturbed by the presence of the church, the power structure of the average community is consoled by…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Most people wish to be consoled, confirmed. They want their prejudices reinforced and their structured belief systems validated. After all,…
— Jennifer Stone
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Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love, Where there is injury,…
— Francis of Assisi
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I know a parson who frightened his congregation terribly by telling them the second coming was very imminent indeed, but…
— Bertrand Russell
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Money is coined liberty, and so it is ten times dearer to a man who is deprived of freedom. If…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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