198 Quotes by Jan Karon

There are three stages in the work of God: impossible, difficult, done.

He had laughed today; he had been happy. He didn’t know why he had not counted more sunny hours in his life, but he hadn’t. God had clearly asked him to, but he was intent on having his own nature, and his own nature could be inward, even melancholy. He didn’t like it, but here it was.

He believed in Father Brad, who conceded with Goethe that ’correction is good, but encouragement is better.

Middle age is when you’ve met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else. Ogden Nash.

Knitting, he thought, was a comfort to the soul.

We look for visions of heaven,” Oswald Chambers had written, “and we never dream that all the time God is in the commonplace things and people around us.” He.

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

There’s no other way I can think of to put it – but when you let him move into your life, the garbage moves out. The anger starts to go, and the resentment, and the fear.

With my mother’s death,” Lewis wrote, “all settled happiness, all that was tranquil and reliable, disappeared from my life. There was to be much fun, many pleasures, many stabs of Joy; but no more of the old security.