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At Home in Mitford
Jan Karon (Author of At Home in Mitford)

 “But “common sense is not faith,” Oswald Chambers had written, “and faith is not common sense.” (At Home in Mitford Quotes)

Jan Karon
At Home in Mitford

“Father, he prayed silently, thank you for sending this boy into my life. Thank you for the joy and the sorrow he brings. Be with him always, to surround him with right influences, and when tests of any kind must come, give him wisdom and strength to act according to your will. Look over his mother, also, and the other children, wherever they are. Feed and clothe them, keep them from harm, and bring them one day into a full relationship with your Son.”

Jan Karon
At Home in Mitford

“For one thing, telling a lie is like eating peanuts. One leads to another. In no time at all, you’ve gone through a bagful.” He rinsed the razor under the tap. “Worst of all, you become a slave to something that isn’t real.”

Jan Karon
At Home in Mitford

“He was miserably disappointed in his own everlasting inability to get up and go, to take strong action and seize control, and do all the things that other people seemed able to do, and which the world admired so much.”

Jan Karon
At Home in Mitford

“Lord, make me a blessing to someone today.”

Jan Karon
At Home in Mitford

“My friend, if you keep your eyes on Christians, you will be disappointed every day of your life. Your hope is to keep your eyes on Christ.”

Jan Karon
At Home in Mitford

“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. When you let God fill you with His love and forgiveness, the things you think you desperately want to hold on to start falling away… and we hardly notice their passing.”

Jan Karon
At Home in Mitford

“Perhaps, he thought, we should all live as if we’re dying.”

Jan Karon
At Home in Mitford

“Sorrow and joy, he thought, so inextricably entwined that he could scarcely tell where one left off and the other began.”

Jan Karon
At Home in Mitford

“The firefly only shines when on the wing, So it is with us–when we stop, we darken.”

Jan Karon
At Home in Mitford

“The sin life in us must be transformed into the spiritual life.” “How?” “Through sacrifice and obedience.”

Jan Karon
At Home in Mitford

“To see the world in a grain of sand, and heaven in a wild flower,’ ” he quoted from Blake. “ ‘Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an hour,’ ” she replied.”

Jan Karon
At Home in Mitford

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