Home to Holly Springs Quotes

“I'd like you to know that I've forgiven him. Again and again. Once done, of course, back comes the Enemy to persecute and prosecute, and I must ante up to God and forgive yet again.”
― Jan Karon, Home to Holly Springs

“Easter is never deserved.”
― Jan Karon, Home to Holly Springs

“There may be circumstances in this life that God uses to keep bringing us back to Him, looking for His grace.”
― Jan Karon, Home to Holly Springs

“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.”
― Jan Karon, Home to Holly Springs

“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, Home to Holly Springs

“Alis volat propiss. (She flies with her own wings.)”
― Jan Karon, Home to Holly Springs

“...weary of k knowing too much and understanding too little.”
― Jan Karon, Home to Holly Springs

“Don't fear whatever God lays before you today.”
― Jan Karon, Home to Holly Springs

“We must stop listening to voices from the past--and we must stop immediately.--Father Tim”
― Jan Karon, Home to Holly Springs

“He remembered the gravestone of a woman parishioner in the churchyard of St. John's in the Grove. DEMURE AT LAST, it read. He thought that the single most definitive and amusing epitaph he'd ever come across.”
― Jan Karon, Home to Holly Springs

“Prayer is getting into relationship with God."

"Isn't it about asking for things we want, and letting God know what's what?"

"No, sir. He already knows what we want and what we need. Prayer is about getting to know him, and worshipping him and trusting him, and thanking him.”
― Jan Karon, Home to Holly Springs

“...I've forgiven him. Again and again. Once done, of course, back comes the Enemy to persecute and prosecute, and I must ante up to God and forgive yet again.”
― Jan Karon, Home to Holly Springs

“I am broke. What I've found in being a priest is that we're all broken. Fallen is perhaps a more scriptural concept, but usually what falls gets broken, so it's all the same."


The up side is, he promises we'll be made whole in heaven. 'Til then, we keep seeking him, keep trusting him, keep letting him have his way with us. That's our job."

"Yeah, fine, but what's his job?"

"His job is to keep forgiving us and keep loving us. That's why, when he gives us something tough to do, he doesn't turn his back and walk away. He sticks with us, sees us through—but only if we ask him to. If we ask, he supplies everything we need.”
― Jan Karon, Home to Holly Springs

“It was a wonderful life. To have a stage play right in this room, with real people acting real parts.”
― Jan Karon, Home to Holly Springs

“He liked being in a place where everything from forgetfulness to homicide might be blamed on the heat.”
― Jan Karon, Home to Holly Springs

“I believe he has a purpose for everything. I believe he'll bring good out of this, maybe even in a way I won't like very much. It's his call, not mine."

"Seems like any God a'tall would want you down here bustin' a gut, not leavin' it all up to him."

"Seems like. But it doesn't work that way. We've got to let him do the heavy lifting. We've got to grunt, that's for sure, but we've got to let him lift. The challenge is to trust him. Right now, I'm trusting him. Running a little scared, but trusting him.”
― Jan Karon, Home to Holly Springs

“Let us weigh the gain and the loss, wagering that God is. Consider these alternatives—if you win, you win all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Do not hesitate, then, to wager that he is.”
― Jan Karon, Home to Holly Springs

“cats.” “A fellow named Robert Heinlein said, ‘Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
― Jan Karon, Home to Holly Springs

“It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.”
― Jan Karon, Home to Holly Springs

“Not everything can be understood or resolved,” said Henry. “But it all has to be faced, I think.”
― Jan Karon, Home to Holly Springs

“mad;”
― Jan Karon, Home to Holly Springs

“people”
― Jan Karon, Home to Holly Springs

“Mama said, Keep yo’ eyes on God. So I did. In all that agony, my eyes were opened in a very strange, new way, an’ I saw Jesus. He was hangin’ on th’ cross. He didn’t see me, but I could see him, plain as day. His suffering was so great that my own grew sweeter, an’ not too long after that, all th’ cuts an’ hurt places healed.”
― Jan Karon, Home to Holly Springs

“think th’ whole point of life is to know God, and be able to accept the way things turn out.”
― Jan Karon, Home to Holly Springs

“Fishin’ promotes patience, Madelaine! Patience! A boy has t’ learn he can’t always have what he wants, when he wants it. Look at th’ state of th’ world. Most of th’ troubles t’day come from havin’ no patience. An’ take perseverance, that’s a absolute requirement if a boy’s gon’ make anything of hisself.”
― Jan Karon, Home to Holly Springs

“at his mother’s grave and his father’s urn.”
― Jan Karon, Home to Holly Springs

“There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.”
― Jan Karon, Home to Holly Springs

“Bless the Lord, O my soul; and all that is within me, bless his holy name. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits.”
― Jan Karon, Home to Holly Springs

“Don’t fear whatever God lays before you today,”
― Jan Karon, Home to Holly Springs

“I say, forget religion. What it's about, is the two of you, you and him. Nothing more, nothing less.”
― Jan Karon, Home to Holly Springs