Top 300 Karen Kingsbury Quotes (2026 Update)
Page 4 of 6

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

— Karen Kingsbury

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

— Karen Kingsbury

153. “Open her heart to me, please, God. After the mess I’ve made of things, I can’t do this on my own.”

— Karen Kingsbury

154. “I came to Christ in my early 20s.”

— Karen Kingsbury

155. “All of it was proof that God would always have the last word when it came to life-and-death situations.”

— Karen Kingsbury

156. “That’s real love. Living in the moment, knowing that even if you only have today together, that would be enough.”

— Karen Kingsbury

157. “That the Lord would make him a whole lot more like Cheyenne. Not afraid of anything. Even falling in love again.”

— Karen Kingsbury

158. “A tsunami of heartbreak consumed the landscape of her heart, wiping out all she has known or assumed or believed to be real over the last eleven years.”

— Karen Kingsbury

159. “Don’t blink, young people. Enjoy every minute.”

— Karen Kingsbury

160. “The issues are complex, and so I think sometimes the best way to work things out is, well, not to work them out.”

— Karen Kingsbury

161. “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

162. “Very simply, God had forgiven her... Amazing grace was something she knew personally. The only right response for the rest of her life was to extend that grace to others, to forgive the way she had been forgiven.”

— Karen Kingsbury

163. “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

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

— Karen Kingsbury

165. “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

166. “Anyway, my faith’s what drives me. God and I are sort of best friends, I guess.”

— Karen Kingsbury

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

— Karen Kingsbury

168. “We don’t have time to hold a grudge against someone. They could be gone before sundown.”

— Karen Kingsbury

169. “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

170. “Daughter, remember in this life you will have trouble.”

— Karen Kingsbury

171. “It would almost be easier to never see her again tan to look into her eyes and know she’d left her love for him somewhere in the past.”

— Karen Kingsbury

172. “Somewhere along the path... a special sort of the love had taken root. An now it was deep enough that they could no longer ignore it, no longer spend an afternoon together without somehow acknowledging the feeling.”

— Karen Kingsbury

173. “It’s easy to step back and see something through the lens of personal bias.”

— Karen Kingsbury

174. “Over the years, their visits and conversations happened less frequently, but that never mattered. They had he sort of friendship that withstood time.”

— Karen Kingsbury

175. “Like that their dreams were set. They promised to push each other, to never settle for anything but the place where their hearts led.”

— Karen Kingsbury

176. “But even now it wasn’t bigger than the God they’d spent a lifetime serving.”

— Karen Kingsbury

177. “Perfect is God’s job.” She released Cheryl’s hand and reached for Tyler’s. “You’ll live your life a lot happier if you stop trying to be perfect. Do your best for Jesus. When you fall short, He’ll carry you.” She smiled at the others. “The way He’s carrying me right now.”

— Karen Kingsbury

178. “The minute their eyes met he felt it, the connection. How had he thought for a minute tat what they shared might’ve changed over the years? He had always known nothing could change it, and he was right.”

— Karen Kingsbury

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

— Karen Kingsbury

180. “Life can be hard on people who want to make a difference for God.”

— Karen Kingsbury

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

— Karen Kingsbury

182. “But the girl had captured his heart and mind and soul.”

— Karen Kingsbury

183. “Ever feel like God wrote a part of the Bible just for you?”

— Karen Kingsbury

184. “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

185. “Sometimes God’s voice is hard to hear over the world.”

— Karen Kingsbury

186. “But the world would be a different place because of him, a netter place. No matter how brief, his life had counted. It had mattered in a deep and lasting way... He was gone, but he had left behind his wisdom and laughter and a thousand precious memories.”

— Karen Kingsbury

187. “Honesty was the glue in any relationship.”

— Karen Kingsbury

188. “You’ll live your life a lot happier if you stop trying to be perfect. Do your best for Jesus. When you fall short, He’ll carry you.”

— Karen Kingsbury

189. “Exactly.” Irma nodded, thoughtful. “I always figured that was because our greatest temptation wouldn’t be the big guns on the sin list – murder and theft and the rest. But something so simple we might overlook it. The temptation to hold a grudge.” “The call to forgive.”

— Karen Kingsbury

190. “That sometimes on the journey to being a grown-up, something would happen that would advance the trip a whole year in a single day.”

— Karen Kingsbury

191. “What will the coming years look like, Lord? What brilliant moments of joy, what moments of growth, what times of heartache are ahead? For a moment, just thinking about the possibility of unknown sorrows seized her heart and brought a rush of fear.”

— Karen Kingsbury

192. “God makes everyone to carry out different tasks.”

— Karen Kingsbury

193. “The general market wants what I do.”

— Karen Kingsbury

194. “Sleep came slowly, the way it had for the past year. But when it caught him, it was with good thoughts, happy thoughts. Thoughts of a lifetime of love with the greatest woman he’d ever known.”

— Karen Kingsbury

195. “Life was not all laughter and mornings at the beach. It was okay to cry.”

— Karen Kingsbury

196. “We never own the people in our lives. We love them, yes, but they are on loan from God. We have them for a moment and then they’re gone. Go ahead and grieve, because you’ll miss Elizabeth. We all will. But while you’re grieving, don’t get mad at God for the minutes you’ll miss with Elizabeth. Thank him for the minutes you had.”

— Karen Kingsbury

197. “Don’t go acting like you’re not in love... I say life’s too short. If two people are in love, then don’t hide it.”

— Karen Kingsbury

198. “But when they finally found each other, when it was clear that God was going to give them a lifetime together, they’d made a promise to Him and to each other.”

— Karen Kingsbury

199. “Time and again as she prayed about this day, this moment, she’d asked God for wisdom.”

— Karen Kingsbury

200. “God was beyond faithful, always, all the time.”

— Karen Kingsbury