Jan Karon Quotes

“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.”
― Jan Karon

“Love is an endless act of forgiveness.”
― Jan Karon

“Professor Morgan had called [Dooley] 'a lad of few words.' That wasn't true. There were words spilling around in him all the time. Too many words. His problem was organizing them.”
― Jan Karon

“You love him, I can see it."
"More than anything."
That alone should be enough, he thought, but of course it never is. Courage has to come in there somewhere, and perseverance and forbearance and patience and all the rest. A job of work, as Uncle Billy would say, but worth it and then some.”
― Jan Karon, Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good