198 Quotes by Jan Karon

Miss Louella says, ‘Love whoever God sets down in front of you. Even the mean ones, ’cause they can sho use it.

The right seminary gives you tools. The Holy Spirit gives you the user’s manual. How the tools are used is different with everybody. A thousand priests, a thousand ministries. All glorifying one God.

Perhaps, he thought, we should all live as if we’re dying.

His feelings of panic had passed once before; it would pass again, he told himself. He must go forward on faith, not feeling.

The windows were open to morning air embroidered with birdsong.

My work is awfully labored just now. Sometimes it has the most wondrous life of its own, it fairly pulls me along – rather like wind surfing! At other times, it drags and mopes, so that I despair of ever writing another word or drawing another picture. I’ve found that if one keeps pushing along during the mopes, out will flash the most exhilarating thought or idea – a way of doing something that I had never seen before – and then, one is off again, and hold on to your hat!

If God puts you there, He is amply sufficient.

Why can’t life always be lived under the stars,′ she said, ’with great music and family and friends?

He tucked her in with a quote from Victor Hugo. ‘“Sleep in peace, God is awake.