Top 300 Karen Kingsbury Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “God wanted His people to be holy, not perfect. Holiness for God meant perfection, of course. But holiness for His people meant being set apart. Different.”

— Karen Kingsbury

102. “I want to be adored, appreciated. I want a guy who’ll fight for me.”

— Karen Kingsbury

103. “He would have to be real in his beliefs, real in his character. Real in the way he treated her and everyone.”

— Karen Kingsbury

104. “Jamie, this is for you... Choose life, Jamie. Whenever you have the chance, choose life.”

— Karen Kingsbury

105. “Her mother had raised her to believe that lying was one of the worst things a person could do.”

— Karen Kingsbury

106. “There were times when I was so sick of talking about the Bible.”

— Karen Kingsbury

107. “If God wanted her to guard her heart, then that meant He wanted her to be careful.”

— Karen Kingsbury

108. “You need to get down among the people who are the dirtiest and dustiest, and the depravity, and you need to see Christ’s light shining there.”

— Karen Kingsbury

109. “She liked thinking that people in heaven had a window to earth, a way to see what they needed to pray about, but through the tearless veil of heaven’s understanding.”

— Karen Kingsbury

110. “Real love understands about love and sacrifice and is willing to live accordingly.”

— Karen Kingsbury

111. “You’re winners not because of your record, but because of whose you are.”

— Karen Kingsbury

112. “Forgiveness can be the one thing that truly holds us back in our Christian walk.”

— Karen Kingsbury

113. “Not all things will be easy for you, Bailey. It’s the hard things that grow us. If you need to get stronger as a performer, then you’ll get stronger.”

— Karen Kingsbury

114. “Life’s too short to worry.”

— Karen Kingsbury

115. “Prayer makes a difference.”

— Karen Kingsbury

116. “Kids grow up and God only gives us so many days with our loved ones.”

— Karen Kingsbury

117. “I’m receiving 300 to 500 letters every week from people telling me that God used my stories to save their marriage or to introduce them to Christ or to heal a relationship that had been broken.”

— Karen Kingsbury

118. “I love that it’s enough for you that we live happily right. And the whole ever-after stuff can come later.”

— Karen Kingsbury

119. “We must look to the cross, to the ultimate sacrifice, the true source of hope.”

— Karen Kingsbury

120. “Battles are won and lost through prayer.”

— Karen Kingsbury

121. “God is at work, even in our storms.”

— Karen Kingsbury

122. “Life only comes at us one day at a time. That’s where we need to let God meet us.”

— Karen Kingsbury

123. “When you go to war against your enemies and see horses and chariots and armies bigger than yours, do not be afraid of them. The Lord your God who brought you up out of Egypt will be with you.”

— Karen Kingsbury

124. “This battle was far beyond her ability or his. Only God could save her life now. Without a miracle, she couldn’t look forward to much more than the next day.”

— Karen Kingsbury

125. “The truth is, people pick on those who shine.”

— Karen Kingsbury

126. “But believing in God and having a relationship with Him were two different things.”

— Karen Kingsbury

127. “I realized I could have as much Jesus as I wanted. He was the only addiction that would make life better.”

— Karen Kingsbury

128. “Perfect is God’s job. He’s perfect enough for all of us. You need Him and I need Him. If you haven’t made peace with that, then it’s time. Today.”

— Karen Kingsbury

129. “Real love lets you figure out the answers by yourself. It says good-bye for a season and prays for your return. Real love understands about love and sacrifice and is willing to live accordingly.”

— Karen Kingsbury

130. “Between the reference tool and Scripture, days later Beth was convinced of two things. First, the Bible was full of sound wisdom, and second, the message might amount to more than head smarts. It might hold the difference between life and death.”

— Karen Kingsbury

131. “Sometimes divorce is as easy as opening a door, Son. Open it just a crack, and the winds of discontent and frustration can blow it wide open.”

— Karen Kingsbury

132. “Because love was a light that wouldn’t allow darkness to reign in his soul.”

— Karen Kingsbury

133. “Bailey hung her head for a moment, and.”

— Karen Kingsbury

134. “Pray on all occasions.” Unlocked page 38.”

— Karen Kingsbury

135. “Ever after’s worth waiting for. Don’t you think?”

— Karen Kingsbury

136. “She felt like she’d slipped into another world. For the first time someone knew exactly what the hurt felt like.”

— Karen Kingsbury

137. “With Ashley it had never been her poor choices as a young adult that made things hardest for all of them. It had been the way she cut herself off from the family, believing herself to be the black sheep.”

— Karen Kingsbury

138. “God always hears us when we pray, isn’t that right?”

— Karen Kingsbury

139. “God’s still in control. Just like He was two thousand years ago.”

— Karen Kingsbury

140. “Elizabeth thought about God, the Lord and Savior she’d spent a lifetime worshiping. Being a believer meant there’d be times like this; wasn’t that what she’d learned over the years? Times when nothing made sense and all she could do was dig her fingernails into her faith and hold on for dear life.”

— Karen Kingsbury

141. “Things were good in her life – very good. God had spared her in more ways than one, and now she was exactly where she belonged.”

— Karen Kingsbury

142. “Keep Christ at the center.”

— Karen Kingsbury

143. “Neither of them was guaranteed their next breath. So why borrow worry from tomorrow?”

— Karen Kingsbury

144. “I always knew I wanted to be a writer.”

— Karen Kingsbury

145. “Despite all the ways she’d messed up in life, she must’ve somehow gained God’s favor anyway.”

— Karen Kingsbury

146. “I write about true-life type things.”

— Karen Kingsbury

147. “He would stand by her. He would stand by her as long as the sun came up in the morning, as long as spring followed winter.”

— Karen Kingsbury

148. “The last song by Lady Antebellum was “Just a Kiss.” The lyrics talked about how they only needed a kiss – nothing more – because this love might be the kind that lasted forever.”

— Karen Kingsbury

149. “The thing with life is you get one chance.”

— Karen Kingsbury

150. “God’s ways are better than man’s.”

— Karen Kingsbury