Jan Karon Quotes - Page 2

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• When we turn from our sin, and have the blessed forgiveness of the Almighty, then we can ask Him to run things, and let Him be in charge.

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  Running, Blessed, Sin

  Jan Karon (2011). “Jan Karons Mitford Years: The First Five Novels”, p.893, Penguin

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• The firefly only shines when on the wing, So it is with us--when we stop, we darken.

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  Firefly, Wings, Shining

  Jan Karon (2006). “The Mitford Bedside Companion: A Treasury of Favorite Mitford Moments, Author Reflections on the Bestselling Se lling Series, and More. Much More.”, p.88, Penguin

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• I try to put my heart out there to everybody. They don't have to be Christian. For example, I have lots of Jewish readers. I love my Jewish readers.

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  Christian, Heart, Trying

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• I'd like you to know that I have forgiven him. Again and again. Once done, course, back comes the Enemy to persecute and persecute, and I must ante up to God and forgive yet again.

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  Forgiving, Enemy, Done

  Jan Karon (2011). “Jan Karons Mitford Years: Novels Six Through Nine; Plus a Father Tim Novel”, p.1578, Penguin

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• In Ireland there’s no such thing as bad weather ~~~ only the wrong clothes. (In the Company of Others)

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  Weather, Clothes, Company

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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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  Real, Sacrifice, Risk

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• Love is an actual need, an urgent requirement of the heart, he read aloud from an old essay on marriage that he found in his files.Every properly constituted human being who entertains an appreciation of loneliness...and looks forward to happiness and content feels the necessity of loving. Without it, life is unfinished.

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  Appreciation, Loneliness, Heart

  Jan Karon (2011). “Jan Karons Mitford Years: The First Five Novels”, p.643, Penguin

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• I live in a village where people still care about each other, largely.

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  People, Village, Care

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• Let me say that I absolutely loved writing 'A Common Life,' because it was a book about love.

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  Book, Writing, Common

  "Leaving Mitford: Jan Karon on Life and Writing". Interview with Belinda Elliott, www.cbn.com.

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• I really care about my readers. I care about anyone who reads my books.

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  Book, Care, I Care

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• For a very long time, I wrote a book a year, and was eager and willing to do it, to put bread on the table, to have my work out there. Now I must write a book every two years, and that's never enough time, either.

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  Book, Writing, Years

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• Sometimes you have to gag on fancy before you can appreciate plain, th' way I see it. For too many years, I ate fancy, I dressed fancy, I talked fancy. A while back, I decided to start talkin' th' way I was raised t' talk, and for th' first time in forty years, I can understand what I'm sayin'.

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  Years, Appreciate, Fancy

  Jan Karon (2005). “At Home in Mitford”, Penguin Books

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• ...weary of k knowing too much and understanding too little.

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  Knowing, Understanding, Littles

  Jan Karon (2007). “Home to Holly Springs”, p.242, Penguin

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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 for themselves teachers to suit their own desires, and will turn from the truth and wander away to myths.

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  Teacher, People, Desire

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• I learned not to be so bitterly defeated when my fiction took a beating from editors. I learned in advertising to color in the lines and have my work done on time and to make it the very best it could be.

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  Color, Editors, Fiction

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• And it can be a way of healing.

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  Healing, Way

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• My grandmother influenced me so deeply.

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  Grandmother, My Grandmother

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

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  Given, Reader, Percent

  "Leaving Mitford: Jan Karon on Life and Writing". Interview with Belinda Elliot, www.cbn.com.

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• Even the roughest character, underneath all that hurt, is someone who wants to love and be loved.

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  Hurt, Character, Want

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• I remember the first time I held my book, my first book in my hands. I cannot tell you how it moved me.

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  Book, Hands, Firsts

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• I have raced against the clock since I went into advertising at the age of eighteen.

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  Age, Advertising, Clock

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• I grew up hearing words like snakeroot, sassafras, mullein - things that had wondrous, mysterious sounds in their names.

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  Names, Sound, Hearing

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• As long as you have any floor space at all, you have room for books! Just make two stacks of books the same height, place them three or four feet apart, lay a board across them, and repeat. Viola! Bookshelves!

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  Book, Two, Feet

  Jan Karon (1998). “Out to Canaan”, p.187, Penguin

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• I've got a lot to download on your mercy and grace. I've always rushed up to You and dumped whatever it was and hurried away, fascinated by my own busyness. I want to turn all this over to You slowly, carefully, examining every fragment as I pass it off, so there'll never be any question about it again. Every time I've dumped and run, I've nearly always run back and snatched it out of Your hands. Help me in this.......Right now, I'm certain of only one thing - that You love us, and that's where we all have to begin.

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  Running, Hands, Grace

  Jan Karon (2011). “Jan Karons Mitford Years: Novels Six Through Nine; Plus a Father Tim Novel”, p.1589, Penguin

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• I believe that's when God first started speaking to my heart--the very day I started speaking to His!

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  Believe, Heart, Firsts

  Jan Karon (2005). “A Light in the Window”, Penguin Books

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