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1. "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..." ~ Jan Karon
2. "Writing is a way of processing our lives. And it can be a way of healing." ~ Jan Karon
3. "I stepped out on faith to follow my lifelong dream of being an author. I made real sacrifices and took big risks. But living, it seems to me, is largely about risk." ~ Jan Karon
4. "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." ~ Jan Karon
5. "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
6. "The firefly only shines when on the wing, So it is with us--when we stop, we darken." ~ Jan Karon
7. "Lord, make me a blessing to someone today" ~ Jan Karon
8. "Are you reading your Bible?"Ah, well...I was."And then you quit."You got it."Then, you can expect to be weak on one of your flanks, and that's precisely where the Enemy will come after you with a vengeance." ~ Jan Karon
9. "I believe that's when God first started speaking to my heart--the very day I started speaking to His!" ~ Jan Karon
10. "Phillipians 4:13 for Pete's sake!" ~ Jan Karon
11. "In Ireland there's no such thing as bad weather ~~~ only the wrong clothes.(In the Company of Others)" ~ Jan Karon
12. "When the trees and the power lines crashed around you, when the very roof gave way above you, when the light turned to darkness and water turned to dust, did you call on Him? When you called on Him, was He somewhere up there, or was He as near as your very breath?" ~ Jan Karon
13. "Give me faith, Lord, to know Your Presence as surely as I know the beating of my own heart. I've felt so far from You...." ~ Jan Karon
14. "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." ~ Jan Karon
15. "Easter is never deserved." ~ Jan Karon
16. "...weary of k knowing too much and understanding too little." ~ Jan Karon
17. "There may be circumstances in this life that God uses to keep bringing us back to Him, looking for His grace." ~ Jan Karon
18. "Sorrow and joy, he thought, so inextricably entwined that he could scarcely tell where one left off and the other began." ~ Jan Karon
19. "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?" ~ Jan Karon
20. "Loving can be hard. Sometimes we don't feel loving, but it isn't all about feeling. Very often it is about will. Practice that if you can." ~ Jan Karon
21. "RATS-IN-A-POKE!" ~ Jan Karon
22. "The standing fields [ready to harvest]were the legions who hadn't filled their God-vacuum with the One who was born to fill it; the standing fields were those who waited for someone to reach out and speak the truth, and tell them how they might be saved." ~ Jan Karon
23. "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." ~ Jan Karon
24. "We must stop listening to voices from the past--and we must stop immediately.--Father Tim" ~ Jan Karon
25. "In his bachelor's heart of hearts, he loved pie with an intensity that alarmed him. Yet, when he was offered seconds, he usually refused. "Wouldn't you like another piece of this nice coconut pie, Father?" he might be asked. "No, I don't believe I'd care for anymore," he'd say. An outright lie!" ~ Jan Karon
26. "Was he willing to blend into the life of another human being for the rest of his days, and have hers blend into his? That, of course, was the Bible's bottom line on marriage: one flesh. Not separate entities, not two autonomous beings merely coming together at dinnertime or brushing past one another in the hallway, holding on to their singleness, guarding against invasion. One flesh!" (p. 207)." ~ Jan Karon
27. "My life is extremely full and wretchedly busy, and I feel that while my life drains energy from my work, my work in turn drains energy from my life. The result is, I am always playing catch-up spiritually. That is my thorn." ~ Jan Karon
28. "There's nothing trite about being consoled in a world that does everything in its power to deliver sorrow." ~ Jan Karon
29. "Publishing is, by its nature, about deadlines, and deadlines are toxic." ~ Jan Karon
30. "The dark book has been terribly popular. Dark characters, dysfunction, and all sorts of things from reality that are true in our world." ~ Jan Karon
31. "Cynics will say there are no good people out there. And if you read the papers and watch TV news you could be convinced of that. But there are good people." ~ Jan Karon
32. "I grew up hearing words like snakeroot, sassafras, mullein - things that had wondrous, mysterious sounds in their names." ~ Jan Karon
33. "I have raced against the clock since I went into advertising at the age of eighteen." ~ Jan Karon
34. "I live in a village where people still care about each other, largely." ~ Jan Karon
35. "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." ~ Jan Karon
36. "I've put everything I had and I've given my readers 120 percent, and that's the truth." ~ Jan Karon
37. "Let me say that I absolutely loved writing 'A Common Life,' because it was a book about love." ~ Jan Karon
38. "My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry." ~ Jan Karon
39. "My grandmother influenced me so deeply." ~ Jan Karon
40. "There was a lot of brokenness in my family. Let's just say that I was raised by my grandparents." ~ Jan Karon
41. "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." ~ Jan Karon

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The great longing of an unquiet heart is to possess constantly and consciously the loved one, or, failing that, to be able to plunge the loved one, when a time of absence intervenes, into a dreamless sleep timed to last unbroken until the day they meet again."
Author: Albert Camus

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