"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

"One of the things that makes a dead leaf fall to the ground is the bud of the new leaf that pushes it off the limb."
— Jan Karon

"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 (Home to Holly Springs: The First of the Father Tim Novels)

"The firefly only shines when on the wing, So it is with us--when we stop, we darken."
— Jan Karon (At Home in Mitford)

"Phillipians 4:13 for Pete's sake!"
— Jan Karon (A New Song)

""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'.""
— Jan Karon

""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 (At Home in Mitford)

"RATS-IN-A-POKE!"
— Jan Karon (These High, Green Hills)

"Lord, make me a blessing to someone today"
— Jan Karon (At Home in Mitford)

"I believe that's when God first started speaking to my heart--the very day I started speaking to His!"
— Jan Karon (Light in the Window)

"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."
— Jan Karon (These High, Green Hills)

"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 (Out to Canaan)

"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 (A New Song)

"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 (In This Mountain)

"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 (Out to Canaan)

"He was praying the Psalms, as he'd done in times past, with the enemies of King David translated into his own enemies of fear and remorse and self-loathing, which, in their legions, had become as armies of darkness."
— Jan Karon (In This Mountain)

"Home to Holly Springs by Jan Karon; first in her new series about Father Tim"
— Jan Karon