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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!

~ Jan Karon

Jan Karon Book Lover Books Literacy Reading

It was a wonderful life. To have a stage play right in this room, with real people acting real parts.

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Jan Karon Life Parts People Play Stage

In World War One, they called it shell shock. Second time around, they called it battle fatigue. After 'Nam, it was post-traumatic stress disorder.

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Jan Karon Battle Fatigue Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Ptsd Shell Shock Veterans Vietnam War War World War 1 World War One World War Two

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

~ Jan Karon

Jan Karon Beauty Fog

That was his favorite thing about books—they took you off to other people’s lives an’ places, but you could still set in your own chair by th’oil heater, warm as a mouse in a churn.

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Jan Karon Adventure Books Favorite Things Reading

While most people took family for granted, he [Father Tim] took it for grace.

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Jan Karon Family Father Tim

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

~ Jan Karon

Jan Karon Family Friends Good Life Stars Wedding

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.

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Jan Karon Dooley Jan Karon Words

Lord, make me a blessing to someone today.

~ Jan Karon

Jan Karon Prayer

I can't say I have any confidence in confidence. I have confidence that God is with us in all things, both tender and tough.

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Jan Karon Confidence Faithfulness God Trust

Love is an endless act of forgiveness.

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Jan Karon Forgiveness Jan Karon Love

When his flock thronged into the midnight service, there was wonder on every face at the newly hung greens and the softly flickering candles on each windowsill. To the simple beauty of the historic church was added fresh, green hope, the lush scent of flowers in winter, and candle flame that cast its flickering shadows over the congregation like a shawl.

~ Jan Karon

Jan Karon Candlelight Christmas Church

Maybe it's because he never had any control over what was happening to him as a boy. Being late was somehow a way of taking charge.

~ Jan Karon

Jan Karon Control Lateness

Merry Christmas!' someone shouted. He wiped his eyes with the back of his hand. 'Merry Christmas!''Merry Christmas!''C-cookies for ever'body!' Sammy hollered. And looking both ways, they all fled across to the light, and the warmth, and the books, and the mystery.

~ Jan Karon

Jan Karon Books Christmas

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.

~ Jan Karon

Jan Karon Giving Listening

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.

~ Jan Karon

Jan Karon Giving Listening

God wastes nothing.

~ Jan Karon

Jan Karon Self Knowledge
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