Top 300 Karen Kingsbury Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “You have to leave room for God’s grace. Perfect is God’s job.”

— Karen Kingsbury

52. “Whenever you can’t sleep, it’s God’s way of telling you to pray. That there’s someone who needs your prayers.” Bailey nodded slowly. “I like that.” “So.”

— Karen Kingsbury

53. “It’s never too late with truth. It stands outside time.”

— Karen Kingsbury

54. “Real love never fails.”

— Karen Kingsbury

55. “I learned something a long time ago. I’d rather be single than be with the wrong guy.”

— Karen Kingsbury

56. “The death of a friendship was usually slow and insidious, like the wearing away of a hillside after years of too much rain. A handful of misunderstandings, a season of miscommunication, the passing of time, and where once stood two women with a dozen years of memories and tears and conversation and laughter – where once stood two women closer than sisters – now stood two strangers.”

— Karen Kingsbury

57. “If you and someone you love have a difference of opinion on something, maybe its beset to let it stay that way. Respect each other’s right to believe what you believe. Respect each other. Agree to disagree.”

— Karen Kingsbury

58. “When leaves have to let go of the tree, they wear their best colors and they dance all the way to the ground.”

— Karen Kingsbury

59. “My mom and dad built our family on faith in God. It’s the most important part of our lives.”

— Karen Kingsbury

60. “Relationships take a lifetime to build. Pride destroys them in a moment.”

— Karen Kingsbury

61. “God stays awake all the time. In case we need to talk to Him about something.”

— Karen Kingsbury

62. “The more bad choices you make, the less bad your choices seem.”

— Karen Kingsbury

63. “God’s not disappointed in you. He’s just not finished with you. That’s all.”

— Karen Kingsbury

64. “God gives us strength beyond what we are capable of. He died on the cross to set us free from the sins that chain us. We won’t have to battle forever – because He’s already won the victory.”

— Karen Kingsbury

65. “When you believe in something you put your whole heart into it.”

— Karen Kingsbury

66. “This was how Christians had fallen under the umbrella of being judgmental and narrow-minded. The idea that one sin could be singled out as the worst, the area God disliked most.”

— Karen Kingsbury

67. “People were never meant to be idols. We aren’t supposed to be worshipped. Only God deserves that kind of praise.”

— Karen Kingsbury

68. “You can’t base your decisions on anyone’s opinion but yours and God’s.”

— Karen Kingsbury

69. “Sometimes hope for the future is found in the ashes of yesterday.”

— Karen Kingsbury

70. “Tonight she needed more than a single Bible verse. She wanted to get lost in Scripture, to swim through the verses and chapters until she found the safe harbor she desperatly needed.”

— Karen Kingsbury

71. “We must remember how to love, remember what’s important, and remember God’s truth as it applies to our relationships.”

— Karen Kingsbury

72. “I’m probably the most loquacious author when it comes to my dedications. The reason is there is some symbolism there. I’ve been writing these books, bringing these stories to my readers who I love so much, and I have a greater love for my family.”

— Karen Kingsbury

73. “Dear God, You’ve opened this door and now it’s my time to walk through it.”

— Karen Kingsbury

74. “One day the dark clouds of this time would lift, because morning always came. No matter how long and dark the night.”

— Karen Kingsbury

75. “You never touch just one heart. Because once someone is loved like that, they’ll go on to touch countless hearts. And with God the chain reaction never ends.”

— Karen Kingsbury

76. “I developed a deep sadness for celebrities, a pity that they often are caught in a plastic world that runs too hard and too fast, and that many times that world means destroyed relationships with everyone they know and love.”

— Karen Kingsbury

77. “Life can be very complicated.”

— Karen Kingsbury

78. “Fame destroys the people who believe it.”

— Karen Kingsbury

79. “Like old friends from a thousand wonderful moments, the memories gathered.”

— Karen Kingsbury

80. “Miracles still happen today... A healed marriage. A healthy family. A job you love. Every one of us has been a witness to a whole host of miracles... let Him have a chance to work a miracle in your life once again.”

— Karen Kingsbury

81. “Suddenly everything the Lord had laid on her heart made perfect sense. What had she felt before when she prayed about taking the part? That God would give her a sign, right? And now it was the same thing all over again. God wanted her to hear His voice, to know Him. And how better to know Him than by knowing what He wasn’t, where He wasn’t?”

— Karen Kingsbury

82. “Hey.” She gave him a sheepish smile. “How do you know me so well?” “I pay attention.” He touched the side of her face again. “Love does that.”

— Karen Kingsbury

83. “Readers need to see themselves between the lines of the story.”

— Karen Kingsbury

84. “Her heart was talking now...”

— Karen Kingsbury

85. “But their mother was the family’s heartbeat. Always she was at the center of their good and bad times, lending perspective or a kind word or a shoulder to cry on.”

— Karen Kingsbury

86. “Wherever people are praying, there’s always hope.”

— Karen Kingsbury

87. “What does the Bible say about love? Perfect love?” “It casts out fear.”

— Karen Kingsbury

88. “I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life – and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story.”

— Karen Kingsbury

89. “Be still and know that I am God.”

— Karen Kingsbury

90. “Silence is the fading heartbeat of relationships.”

— Karen Kingsbury

91. “How faithful God had been over the years, how full of provision and beauty. And redemption.”

— Karen Kingsbury

92. “Lasting peace is only found through a lifesaving relationship wit Jesus Christ... knowing Christ means that all the world might be falling apart just outside your front door, maybe just inside it – yet that inner peace, that inner knowing, remains unshaken.”

— Karen Kingsbury

93. “Love never had enough time, but what time was left, he would savor. Every single second.”

— Karen Kingsbury

94. “Not all first loves were forever loves.”

— Karen Kingsbury

95. “I promise to be with you, stay with you, love you, and laugh with you. I promise to listen and always look for new ways to show you how much I care. Most of all, I promise to lean on God through life’s trials, tragedies and triumphs. Because if I lean on Him, you can always lean on me.”

— Karen Kingsbury

96. “And though the clapping came from the family and friends that filled the church, she was sure she heard a distant clapping, too. A clapping of all the angels in heaven and earth who knew that a moment like this could only come from one source. Their loving, faithful Almighty God.”

— Karen Kingsbury

97. “With the Lord, the journey was the destination. Every morning, every night, every step in between was a walk of faith. Otherwise there would be no need for a relationship with Jesus. The.”

— Karen Kingsbury

98. “God was in control. He wouldn’t take them through a season where He hadn’t gone first.”

— Karen Kingsbury

99. “New steps. That’s what it amounted to. The two of them were learning the steps that would bring them together, a dance that would take them into forever. A dance that could be nothing less than God’s plan for their lives.”

— Karen Kingsbury

100. “It is. But it’s like so many stories where God is the author. His fingerprints mark every chapter.”

— Karen Kingsbury