To Be Where You Are Quotes

“Go and be as the butterfly!
Dooley grinned. You've said that as long as I can remember. I'm not pulling up what it means.
It was what God had said to him, a small-town clergyman, another lifetime a go, and what he had tried and was still trying to do.
I think it means to go unfettered by cares, by the infernal bondage of the mortal. Go with a light heart, trusting God and giving thanks. Go and gather unto yourselves so you can pour out to others.
He took a deep breath. Go without looking back.”
― Jan Karon, To Be Where You Are

“Miss Louella says, ‘Love whoever God sets down in front of you. Even the mean ones, ’cause they can sho use it.”
― Jan Karon, To Be Where You Are

“She thought that one of the hardest parts of marriage was being loving when both partners were exhausted or wounded at the same time. When you had the least strength, that’s when you had to dig beyond your limits and grab whatever could be found and give it away.”
― Jan Karon, To Be Where You Are

“We don’t have to do great things to make a difference. We can make a great difference by doing small things graciously.”
― Jan Karon, To Be Where You Are

“Yet in all this, she was to trust God—and more than that, yes, truly more than that, she was to thank him.”
― Jan Karon, To Be Where You Are

“How could he do possibly want to do this fool thing?…Maybe it wasn’t about wanting or not wanting. Though he was beyond serving the mission field, wasn’t his own town a mission field?…And didn’t charity begin at home?”
― Jan Karon, To Be Where You Are

“Maybe the best way to honor the deceased was to laugh with the living.”
― Jan Karon, To Be Where You Are

“Her mom said they were to pray for the people her dad and his colleagues were treating, pray for his sound health and safekeeping, and trust God in everything. She knew such wisdom in her head, but complete trust was, as her mother said, ‘yet to build a station in her heart and erect its flag of undisputed possession.”
― Jan Karon, To Be Where You Are

“The right seminary gives you tools. The Holy Spirit gives you the user’s manual. How the tools are used is different with everybody. A thousand priests, a thousand ministries. All glorifying one God.”
― Jan Karon, To Be Where You Are

“I think it means to go unfettered by cares, by the infernal bondage of the mortal. Go with a light heart, trusting God and giving thanks. Go and gather unto yourselves so you can pour out to others.’ He took a deep breath. ‘Go without looking back.”
― Jan Karon, To Be Where You Are

“He said what his dad said when he couldn't pray, when his thoughts were too jumbled, when he couldn't think straight: 'Jesus'.”
― Jan Karon, To Be Where You Are

“Peace . . . and plenty . . . graciously provided by God who created us for himself, and who loves each of us devoutly, devotedly, steadfastly, forever.”
― Jan Karon, To Be Where You Are

“All people are children when they sleep. There’s no war in them then . . . They . . . open their hands halfway, soldiers and statesmen, servants and masters. . . . If only we could speak to one another then when our hearts are half-open flowers Words like golden bees would drift in.”
― Jan Karon, To Be Where You Are

“He believed in Father Brad, who conceded with Goethe that ‘correction is good, but encouragement is better.”
― Jan Karon, To Be Where You Are

“What is your hope,’ said Paul, ‘for any ministry you may undertake?’ ‘To help people love God so they can learn to love themselves and each other.”
― Jan Karon, To Be Where You Are

“God is in love with you, brother. He made you for himself.”
― Jan Karon, To Be Where You Are

“This would be his first morning without caffeine.”
― Jan Karon, To Be Where You Are

“Lord, here is your servant, Redeemer, made with love and bound by your grace. Thank you for your mercy." (said by character Lace Kavanaugh over a dying dog).”
― Jan Karon, To Be Where You Are

“Love shall be our token,”
― Jan Karon, To Be Where You Are

“Fancy education isn’t everything. You don’t need a doctorate to be an intelligent, sensitive, kind, and caring person which you truly, truly are, Harley. Forty boxes of books cannot equal that, I totally promise you.”
― Jan Karon, To Be Where You Are

“I think it means to go unfettered by cares, by the infernal bondage of the mortal. Go with a light heart, trusting God and giving thanks. Go and gather unto yourselves so you can pour out to others.”
― Jan Karon, To Be Where You Are

“I believe there’s somebody like him in every pew—asking a simple question, needing a simple answer.”
― Jan Karon, To Be Where You Are

“I would have told him that God was in love with him, that he made us for himself. As hard as that is to imagine, the power of it speaks to people, gives a certain comfort. I would have said that God isn’t just up there, he’s down here with us, knowing the beating of our hearts. I would have told him that governing truth, the bottom line—that what we must do is empty ourselves, surrender everything, asking his guidance in our lives. ‘As far as I could tell, Mount Sherman had no ego,”
― Jan Karon, To Be Where You Are

“How could people let go of their old things, when each told a part of their story? Old things were a literature, a narrative.”
― Jan Karon, To Be Where You Are

“His sermon had been preached 24/7 on the floor of The Local for more than three and a half decades.”
― Jan Karon, To Be Where You Are

“She was going to have to learn to trust God. Completely”
― Jan Karon, To Be Where You Are

“In every way, un-forgiveness makes us the victim—”
― Jan Karon, To Be Where You Are

“When things worked, they were theirs; when they failed, they were his.”
― Jan Karon, To Be Where You Are

“That’s why growing old together is lovely. You have someone to complain to.”
― Jan Karon, To Be Where You Are

“If his wife was happy and his boy was happy, he was happy.”
― Jan Karon, To Be Where You Are