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To Be Where You Are (Mitford Years #14) QUOTES

To Be Where You Are (Mitford Years #14) QUOTES

1 " 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 (Mitford Years #14)

2 " 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 (Mitford Years #14)

3 " 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 (Mitford Years #14)

4 " 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 (Mitford Years #14)

5 " 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 (Mitford Years #14)

6 " 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 (Mitford Years #14)

7 " 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 (Mitford Years #14)

8 " Maybe the best way to honor the deceased was to laugh with the living. "

― Jan Karon , To Be Where You Are (Mitford Years #14)

9 " 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 (Mitford Years #14)

10 " 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 (Mitford Years #14)

11 " 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 (Mitford Years #14)

12 " He believed in Father Brad, who conceded with Goethe that ‘correction is good, but encouragement is better. "

― Jan Karon , To Be Where You Are (Mitford Years #14)

13 " 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 (Mitford Years #14)

14 " God is in love with you, brother. He made you for himself. "

― Jan Karon , To Be Where You Are (Mitford Years #14)

15 " 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 (Mitford Years #14)

16 " At a time when he really needed to let go, he was holding on. To Lace. To his stuff. Let go, let God. Come on, man. "

― Jan Karon , To Be Where You Are (Mitford Years #14)

17 " 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 (Mitford Years #14)

18 " George, Lord Lyttelton had said, How much the wife is dearer than the bride. "

― Jan Karon , To Be Where You Are (Mitford Years #14)

19 " God had been merciful. He wanted to be merciful, too. He was the only one who could open the channel between his children and their grandmother. If he could do this with his head, maybe later it would move to his heart. "

― Jan Karon , To Be Where You Are (Mitford Years #14)

20 " The house rule was no Christmas tree ’til after Name Day. These were two separate life events, to be celebrated on their own merits. "

― Jan Karon , To Be Where You Are (Mitford Years #14)