Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good Quotes

“Love is an act of endless forgiveness.”
― Jan Karon, Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good

“I worried too much about what others thought—I can tell you it’s a tragic waste of time and energy and pokes God in the eye.”
― Jan Karon, Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good

“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.”
― Jan Karon, Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good

“We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.”
― Jan Karon, Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good

“Rejoice! Know that I am with you and for you and will never leave you; take courage that I will fight for you and be your shield and buckler and provide for you when you are old; I will supply your every need, I will give you victory over death, I have prepared a place for you in heaven”
― Jan Karon, Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good

“In everything, give thanks.”
― Jan Karon, Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good

“He turned away for a moment, smacked by the beauty of complete surprise.”
― Jan Karon, Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good

“No matter how far we travel, the memories will follow in the baggage car.”
― Jan Karon, Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good

“Father Tim: Know that God has a plan for your future. Watch and wait for his timing, and when it comes, hitch a ride. You'll know.”
― Jan Karon, Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good

“All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art. JL Borges”
― Jan Karon, Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good

“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.—George Bernard Shaw”
― Jan Karon, Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good

“Your goodness to me has been overwhelming. How tender you are, though I am often as tough as gristle. How patiently you have loved me since you made up your mind to love me always.”
― Jan Karon, Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good

“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, Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good

“When I speak of God’s will, it helps to know that he wants the best for us. If you can’t believe he’s there, pray anyway. If you feel he’s cheap and withholding, thank him anyway. There will come a time when you’ll thank him even for the hard places.”
― Jan Karon, Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good

“in peace, God is awake.”
― Jan Karon, Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good

“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, Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good

“He tucked her in with a quote from Victor Hugo. ‘“Sleep in peace, God is awake.”
― Jan Karon, Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good

“one who possessed Beauty without Vanity,”’ he said aloud to Barnabas. ‘“Strength without Insolence, / Courage without Ferocity, / And all the virtues of Man without his Vices.”
― Jan Karon, Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good

“When I speak of God's will, it helps to know that he wants the best for us. If you can't believe he's there, pray anyway. If you feel he's cheap and withholding, thank him anyway. There will come a time when you'll thank him even for the hard places."

"Perhaps somewhere I have the smallest bit of faith," she said, "something left over from my childhood. But it's almost nothing, not enough..."

"If you yield it up, God will make it enough.”
― Jan Karon, Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good

“I think you could say I came to the end of myself. I really did want a show all my own, and he had to hammer me pretty hard to make me see that it was all his. We don't like relinquishing the power we never had anyway, even though running the show ourselves never works. I surrendered everything to him. What did I have to lose?”
― Jan Karon, Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good

“No two persons every read the same book.—Edmund Wilson "Nor does any one person ever reread the same book!”
― Jan Karon, Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good

“If you yield it up, God will make it enough”
― Jan Karon, Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good

“Deep in their roots,’ Roethke had said, ‘all flowers keep the light.”
― Jan Karon, Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good

“All that I have seen,” Mr. Emerson said and I say with him, “teaches me to trust the Creator for all that I have not seen.”
― Jan Karon, Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good

“Thank you, God, for second chances,”
― Jan Karon, Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good

“In the end, his mother’s memory could not be shamed by a gift from God. Don’t worry about me, she would say, and never worry what others may think. I worried too much about what others thought—I can tell you it’s a tragic waste of time and energy and pokes God in the eye.”
― Jan Karon, Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good

“to be somewhere safe with somebody good.”
― Jan Karon, Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good

“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.”
― Jan Karon, Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good

“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.”
― Jan Karon, Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good

“Lord Jesus, stay with us, for evening is at hand and the day is past; be our companion in the way, kindle our hearts, and awaken hope, that we may know thee as thou art revealed in Scripture and the breaking of bread. Grant this for the sake of thy love, amen.”
― Jan Karon, Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good