198 Quotes by Jan Karon

How little people know who think that holiness is dull. When one meets the real thing, it’s irresistible. – C. S. Lewis.

A small parish is a fragile ecology.

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

There are so many people who don’t know small towns exist. When I write, I want to give my readers two things: one is a sense of consolation, and two, I want to make them laugh.

Maybe the best way to honor the deceased was to laugh with the living.

There are two things to aim at in life,’ ” he quoted from Logan Pearsall Smith. “ ‘First, to get what you want, and after that, to enjoy it.

We are not necessarily doubting,” said C. S. Lewis, “that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.” He.

Men ate the bread of angels,” was how the psalmist described it. That appeared, somehow, to illustrate his marriage. Every day, with what seemed to be no effort at all on his part, he received God’s extraordinary provision of contentment – there it was, waiting for him at every dawn; all he had to do was gather it in.

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