Top 300 Karen Kingsbury Quotes (2026 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. “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

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

— Karen Kingsbury

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

— Karen Kingsbury

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

— Karen Kingsbury

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

— Karen Kingsbury

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

— Karen Kingsbury

109. “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

110. “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

111. “I can spend 10 to 15 minutes with someone, and they can tell me what they’re going through. I may never have gone through that, but I get it on a really deep level.”

— Karen Kingsbury

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

— Karen Kingsbury

113. “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

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

— Karen Kingsbury

115. “Prayer makes a difference.”

— Karen Kingsbury

116. “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

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

— Karen Kingsbury

118. “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

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

— Karen Kingsbury

120. “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

121. “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

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

— Karen Kingsbury

123. “Life’s too short to worry.”

— Karen Kingsbury

124. “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

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

— Karen Kingsbury

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

— Karen Kingsbury

127. “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

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

— Karen Kingsbury

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

— Karen Kingsbury

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

— Karen Kingsbury

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

— Karen Kingsbury

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

— Karen Kingsbury

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

— Karen Kingsbury

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

— Karen Kingsbury

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

— Karen Kingsbury

136. “In his heart, a man plans his course, but the Lord determines his steps.”

— Karen Kingsbury

137. “Grace beyond measure. All of it unconditional. Because love like this was from God.”

— Karen Kingsbury

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

— Karen Kingsbury

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

— Karen Kingsbury

140. “And suddenly, there it was. The one thing they’d never discussed, never dared to imagine. At first he said nothing, but he didn’t have to. His eyes told her that he was feeling the same way that she was.”

— Karen Kingsbury

141. “Keep Christ at the center.”

— Karen Kingsbury

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

— Karen Kingsbury

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

— Karen Kingsbury

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

— Karen Kingsbury

145. “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

146. “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

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

— Karen Kingsbury

148. “You can pray that God will help you understand those plans. But you don’t have to worry. He definitely has good plans for you.”

— Karen Kingsbury

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

— Karen Kingsbury

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

— Karen Kingsbury