Top 300 Karen Kingsbury Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “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

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

— Karen Kingsbury

153. “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

154. “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

155. “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

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

— Karen Kingsbury

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

— Karen Kingsbury

158. “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

159. “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

160. “And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.”

— Karen Kingsbury

161. “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

162. “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

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

— Karen Kingsbury

164. “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

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

— Karen Kingsbury

166. “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

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

— Karen Kingsbury

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

— Karen Kingsbury

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

— Karen Kingsbury

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

— Karen Kingsbury

171. “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

172. “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

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

— Karen Kingsbury

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

— Karen Kingsbury

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

— Karen Kingsbury

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

— Karen Kingsbury

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

— Karen Kingsbury

178. “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

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

— Karen Kingsbury

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

— Karen Kingsbury

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

— Karen Kingsbury

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

— Karen Kingsbury

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

— Karen Kingsbury

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

— Karen Kingsbury

185. “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

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

— Karen Kingsbury

187. “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

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

— Karen Kingsbury

189. “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

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

— Karen Kingsbury

191. “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

192. “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

193. “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

194. “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

195. “You need to have time to really hear God.”

— Karen Kingsbury

196. “But God had showed her where she needed to be, and the answer was clearer than water.”

— Karen Kingsbury

197. “We’re no light at all if we’re not a light in a visible place.”

— Karen Kingsbury

198. “And like that, the decades disappeared and the memory of that night came to life again. The way John had known it would. He didn’t fight it, didn’t work to stay in the here and now. If he was going to go back, then he wanted to relive it. All of it.”

— Karen Kingsbury

199. “I hope God gives us windows in heaven.”

— Karen Kingsbury

200. “Reader loyalty will stay because I’m not changing.”

— Karen Kingsbury