A New Song Quotes

“Phillipians 4:13 for Pete's sake!”
― Jan Karon, A New Song

“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

“Don’t feel totally, personally, irrevocably responsible for everything. That’s my job. Signed, God.”
― Jan Karon, A New Song

“Be thankful for the smallest blessing,” Thomas à Kempis had written, “and you will deserve to receive greater. Value the least gifts no less than the greatest, and simple graces as especial favors. If you remember the dignity of the Giver, no gift will seem small or mean, for nothing can be valueless that is given by the most high God.” Father”
― Jan Karon, A New Song

“Let the peace of this place surround you as you sit or kneel quietly. Let the hurry and worry of your life fall away. You are God’s child. He loves you and cares for you, and is here with you now and always. Speak to Him thoughtfully, give yourself time for Him to bring things to mind.”
― Jan Karon, A New Song

“Maybe you done stepped aroun’ th’ Lord an’ tryin’ to lead th’ way.”
― Jan Karon, A New Song

“Some have been in church all their lives and have never known this mighty, marvelous, and yet simple personal relationship. Others believe that while such a relationship may be possible, it’s not for them—why would God want to bother with them, except from a very great distance? In reality, it is no bother to God at all. He wants this relationship far, far more than you and I want it, and I pray that you will ponder that marvelous truth.”
― Jan Karon, A New Song

“We are, finally, all wanderers in search of knowledge. Most of us hold the dream of becoming something better than we are, something larger, richer, in some way more important to the world and ourselves. Too often, the way taken is the wrong way, with too much emphasis on what we want to have, rather than what we wish to become.”
― Jan Karon, A New Song

“The world is too much with us; late and soon,’ ” he said, quoting Wordsworth. “ ‘Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;/ little we see in Nature that is ours;/ we have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!”
― Jan Karon, A New Song

“A loved one from us has gone, A voice we love is stilled. A place is vacant in our home, Which never will be filled. Estelle Woodhouse, 1898-1987”
― Jan Karon, A New Song

“Be anxious for nothing . . . He began to mentally recite one of the verses he’d tried to live by for a very long time. . . . but in everything, with prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, make your requests known unto God, and the peace that passes all understanding will fill your heart and mind through Christ Jesus.”
― Jan Karon, A New Song

“The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart has trusted in Him and I am helped. He is not only with me but in me and I in Him.”
― Jan Karon, A New Song

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― Jan Karon, A New Song

“You pushin’ too hard,” she said. “You have to push, Louella.” Out there in the world, he wanted to say, it was all about push.”
― Jan Karon, A New Song

“Lord, give me the words, the wisdom, the heart for this, Your will be done. . .”
― Jan Karon, A New Song

“May our sleep be deep and soft,’ ” he whispered, “ ‘so our work be fresh and hard.”
― Jan Karon, A New Song

“A good shoe is a shoe you don’t notice . . . The perfect church service would be one we were almost unaware of; our attention would have been on God. But every novelty prevents this. It fixes our attention on the service itself, and thinking about worship is a different thing from worshipping.”
― Jan Karon, A New Song