198 Quotes by Jan Karon

I thought of you when I read this quote from "Come Rain or Come Shine (A Mitford Novel)" by Jan Karon -"Listening is among the most generous ways to give. When a loved one talks to us— whether their words appear to be deep or shallow— listen. For in some way, they are baring their souls.

I have just four words to leave with you. Four words that have spoken volumes of truth into my life.'He wanted the words to stay in the room, to remain long after he had gone. Though no one wished to hear Paul's radical injunction, it had to be told.'In everything, give thanks.'This was the lifeboat in any crisis. Over and over again, he had learned this, and over and over again, he had to be reminded.

Love is an endless act of forgiveness.

To do it all and deprive others of doing is...a misguided notion.

There is no such thing as too many deviled eggs.

How could he do possibly want to do this fool thing?…Maybe it wasn’t about wanting or not wanting. Though he was beyond serving the mission field, wasn’t his own town a mission field?…And didn’t charity begin at home?

His sermon had been preached 24/7 on the floor of The Local for more than three and a half decades.

... for fog was merely a cloud that wasn't too smitten with itself to visit terra firma.

He eyed in the far corner of the room the carton of books they'd schlepped across the pond(ocean) They were both fearful of being stuck without a decent book, and who knew they would find everything from Virgil to Synge on the shelves of a fishing lodge?