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Top 25 Karen Swallow Prior Quotes (2025 Update)

Karen Swallow Prior Quote: “But the virtue of patience entails much more than merely waiting. The essence of patience is the willingness to endure suffering.”

1. “But the virtue of patience entails much more than merely waiting. The essence of patience is the willingness to endure suffering.”

— Karen Swallow Prior

Karen Swallow Prior Quote: “The more I thought about it, the more I realized that reading – that is, really reading, interpreting – literature is practice for reading and interpreting life. The more one practices, the better one gets.”

2. “The more I thought about it, the more I realized that reading – that is, really reading, interpreting – literature is practice for reading and interpreting life. The more one practices, the better one gets.”

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Karen Swallow Prior Quote: “What does it mean to practice faith well? While our works cannot save us, our habits can strengthen our faith.”

3. “What does it mean to practice faith well? While our works cannot save us, our habits can strengthen our faith.”

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Karen Swallow Prior Quote: “Thomas Merton says, “Discovering vocation does not mean scrambling toward some prize just beyond my reach but accepting the treasure of true self I already possess. Vocation does not come from a voice out there calling me to be something I am not. It comes from a voice in here calling me to be the person I was born to be, to fulfill the original selfhood given me at birth by God.”

4. “Thomas Merton says, “Discovering vocation does not mean scrambling toward some prize just beyond my reach but accepting the treasure of true self I already possess. Vocation does not come from a voice out there calling me to be something I am not. It comes from a voice in here calling me to be the person I was born to be, to fulfill the original selfhood given me at birth by God.”

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Karen Swallow Prior Quote: “Just as water, over a long period of time, reshapes the land through which it runs, so too we are formed by the habit of reading good books well.”

5. “Just as water, over a long period of time, reshapes the land through which it runs, so too we are formed by the habit of reading good books well.”

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Karen Swallow Prior Quote: “Books have formed the soul of me. I know that spiritual formation is of God, but I also know – mainly because I learned it from books – that there are other kinds of formation, too, everyday gifts, and that God uses the things of this earth to teach us and shape us, and to help us find truth.”

6. “Books have formed the soul of me. I know that spiritual formation is of God, but I also know – mainly because I learned it from books – that there are other kinds of formation, too, everyday gifts, and that God uses the things of this earth to teach us and shape us, and to help us find truth.”

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Karen Swallow Prior Quote: “God who spoke the world into existence with words is, in fact, the source of meaning of all words. My journey toward that discovery is the story of this book. I thought my love of books was taking me away from God, but as it turns out, book were the backwoods path back to God, bramble-filled and broken, yes, but full of truth and wonder.”

7. “God who spoke the world into existence with words is, in fact, the source of meaning of all words. My journey toward that discovery is the story of this book. I thought my love of books was taking me away from God, but as it turns out, book were the backwoods path back to God, bramble-filled and broken, yes, but full of truth and wonder.”

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Karen Swallow Prior Quote: “Freedom is not an endless sea of choices, but an acceptance, embrace even, of both the nature and the grace at the core of our being and our becoming.”

8. “Freedom is not an endless sea of choices, but an acceptance, embrace even, of both the nature and the grace at the core of our being and our becoming.”

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Karen Swallow Prior Quote: “To read well is not to scour books for lessons on what to think. Rather, to read well is to be formed in how to think.”

9. “To read well is not to scour books for lessons on what to think. Rather, to read well is to be formed in how to think.”

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Karen Swallow Prior Quote: “I retell in the pages of Booked how, by reading widely, voraciously, and indiscriminately, I learned spiritual lessons I never learned in church or Sunday school, as well as emotional and intellectual lessons that I would never have encountered within the realm of my lived experience.”

10. “I retell in the pages of Booked how, by reading widely, voraciously, and indiscriminately, I learned spiritual lessons I never learned in church or Sunday school, as well as emotional and intellectual lessons that I would never have encountered within the realm of my lived experience.”

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Karen Swallow Prior Quote: “Reading well adds to our life – not in the way a tool from the hardware store adds to our life, for a tool does us no good once lost or broken, but in the way a friendship adds to our life, altering us forever.”

11. “Reading well adds to our life – not in the way a tool from the hardware store adds to our life, for a tool does us no good once lost or broken, but in the way a friendship adds to our life, altering us forever.”

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Karen Swallow Prior Quote: “The fullness of literary language echoes meaning – and reminds us that there is, in fact, meaning.”

12. “The fullness of literary language echoes meaning – and reminds us that there is, in fact, meaning.”

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Karen Swallow Prior Quote: “A useful education served women best, More thought. To ‘learn how to grow old gracefully is perhaps one of the rarest and most valuable arts which can be taught to a woman.’ Yet, when beauty is all that is expected or desired in a woman, she is left with nothing in its absence. It ‘is a most severe trail for those women to be called to lay down beauty, who have nothing else to take up. It is for this sober season of life that education should lay up its rich resources,’ she argued.”

13. “A useful education served women best, More thought. To ‘learn how to grow old gracefully is perhaps one of the rarest and most valuable arts which can be taught to a woman.’ Yet, when beauty is all that is expected or desired in a woman, she is left with nothing in its absence. It ‘is a most severe trail for those women to be called to lay down beauty, who have nothing else to take up. It is for this sober season of life that education should lay up its rich resources,’ she argued.”

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Karen Swallow Prior Quote: “Humility is not, therefore, simply a low regard for oneself; rather, it is a proper view of oneself that is low in comparison to God and in recognition of our own fallenness. “Humility is thinking less about yourself, not thinking less of yourself.”

14. “Humility is not, therefore, simply a low regard for oneself; rather, it is a proper view of oneself that is low in comparison to God and in recognition of our own fallenness. “Humility is thinking less about yourself, not thinking less of yourself.”

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Karen Swallow Prior Quote: “Excellence is an art won by training and habituation: we do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have these because we have acted rightly; “these virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions”; we are what we repeatedly do.”

15. “Excellence is an art won by training and habituation: we do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have these because we have acted rightly; “these virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions”; we are what we repeatedly do.”

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Karen Swallow Prior Quote: “From that moment, and for the rest of my life, my mother’s words – perceptive and many others – have helped me to be the thing she saw and named in me.”

16. “From that moment, and for the rest of my life, my mother’s words – perceptive and many others – have helped me to be the thing she saw and named in me.”

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Karen Swallow Prior Quote: “A book that requires nothing from you might offer the same diversion as that of a television sitcom, but it is unlikely to provide intellectual, aesthetic, or spiritual rewards long after the cover is closed.”

17. “A book that requires nothing from you might offer the same diversion as that of a television sitcom, but it is unlikely to provide intellectual, aesthetic, or spiritual rewards long after the cover is closed.”

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Karen Swallow Prior Quote: “Her shift in thinking was clearly conflicted. It must have been difficult to disavow something for which she had a deep love and in which she had been immersed so much of her life.”

18. “Her shift in thinking was clearly conflicted. It must have been difficult to disavow something for which she had a deep love and in which she had been immersed so much of her life.”

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Karen Swallow Prior Quote: “The more I see of the ‘hounoured, famed, and great,’ the more I see of the littleness, the unsatisfactoriness of all created good; and that no earthly pleasure can fill up the wants of the immortal principle within.”

19. “The more I see of the ‘hounoured, famed, and great,’ the more I see of the littleness, the unsatisfactoriness of all created good; and that no earthly pleasure can fill up the wants of the immortal principle within.”

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Karen Swallow Prior Quote: “It should be held as an eternal truth, that what is morally wrong can never be politically right.”65.”

20. “It should be held as an eternal truth, that what is morally wrong can never be politically right.”65.”

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Karen Swallow Prior Quote: “Certainly, some reading material merits a quick read, but habitual skimming is for the mind what a steady diet of fast food is for the body.”

21. “Certainly, some reading material merits a quick read, but habitual skimming is for the mind what a steady diet of fast food is for the body.”

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Karen Swallow Prior Quote: “God can carry on his own work, though all such poor tools as I were broken.”

22. “God can carry on his own work, though all such poor tools as I were broken.”

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Karen Swallow Prior Quote: “It is no coincidence that the term “voice” has come to mean in modern usage much more than just the sound made by the vocal organs, but also the means by which we make our individual selves known, not only to others but to ourselves. For the connection between the self and language is inseparable: it is through language that the self becomes.”

23. “It is no coincidence that the term “voice” has come to mean in modern usage much more than just the sound made by the vocal organs, but also the means by which we make our individual selves known, not only to others but to ourselves. For the connection between the self and language is inseparable: it is through language that the self becomes.”

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Karen Swallow Prior Quote: “Our actions, our decisions, and even the very perceptions we register in our consciousness have been primed by the larger story – of our family, our community, our culture – in which we imagine ourselves.”

24. “Our actions, our decisions, and even the very perceptions we register in our consciousness have been primed by the larger story – of our family, our community, our culture – in which we imagine ourselves.”

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Karen Swallow Prior Quote: “The marital relationship is singular in the way each partner shapes and forms the other. The good habits practiced by one partner contribute to the positive formation of the other. The same is true of bad habits. This mutuality doubles the effects of one person’s habits, whether positively or negatively.”

25. “The marital relationship is singular in the way each partner shapes and forms the other. The good habits practiced by one partner contribute to the positive formation of the other. The same is true of bad habits. This mutuality doubles the effects of one person’s habits, whether positively or negatively.”

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Karen Swallow Prior Quote: “I struggled against God. Not as many do. But still I did, in my own way. I didn’t doubt his being. I doubted his ways. I doubted that his ways were better than my ways.”

26. “I struggled against God. Not as many do. But still I did, in my own way. I didn’t doubt his being. I doubted his ways. I doubted that his ways were better than my ways.”

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Karen Swallow Prior Quote: “Similarly, we can hardly attain human excellence if we don’t have an understanding of human purpose. Human excellence occurs only when we glorify God, which is our true purpose.”

27. “Similarly, we can hardly attain human excellence if we don’t have an understanding of human purpose. Human excellence occurs only when we glorify God, which is our true purpose.”

— Karen Swallow Prior

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