Top 300 Karen Kingsbury Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “She felt like she’d slipped into another world. For the first time someone knew exactly what the hurt felt like.”

— Karen Kingsbury

152. “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

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

— Karen Kingsbury

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

— Karen Kingsbury

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

— Karen Kingsbury

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

— Karen Kingsbury

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

— Karen Kingsbury

158. “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

159. “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

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

— Karen Kingsbury

161. “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

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

— Karen Kingsbury

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

— Karen Kingsbury

164. “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

165. “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

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

— Karen Kingsbury

167. “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

168. “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

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

— Karen Kingsbury

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

— Karen Kingsbury

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

— Karen Kingsbury

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

— Karen Kingsbury

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

— Karen Kingsbury

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

— Karen Kingsbury

175. “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

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

— Karen Kingsbury

177. “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

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

— Karen Kingsbury

179. “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

180. “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

181. “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

182. “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

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

— Karen Kingsbury

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

— Karen Kingsbury

185. “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

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

— Karen Kingsbury

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

— Karen Kingsbury

188. “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

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

— Karen Kingsbury

190. “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

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. “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

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

— Karen Kingsbury

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

— Karen Kingsbury

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

— Karen Kingsbury

196. “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

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

— Karen Kingsbury

198. “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

199. “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

200. “When God’s people couldn’t take another step, He was there to carry them.”

— Karen Kingsbury