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“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” (Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good Quotes)
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
“Charles Dickens said, It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens the temper—so cry away.”
Jan Karon
Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good
“God our Father, Lord and Savior, thank you for your love and favor, bless this food and drink we pray, and Irene who shares with me today. Amen.”
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
“He turned away for a moment, smacked by the beauty of complete surprise.”
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
“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
“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
“Love is an act of endless forgiveness.”
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
“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
“No matter how far we travel, the memories will follow in the baggage car.”
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
“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
“Then he turned and went home to the yellow house where he had been given everything and more, none of it especially deserved.”
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
“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
“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
