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

152. “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

153. “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

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

— Karen Kingsbury

155. “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

156. “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

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

— Karen Kingsbury

158. “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

159. “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

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

— Karen Kingsbury

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

— Karen Kingsbury

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

— Karen Kingsbury

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

— Karen Kingsbury

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

— Karen Kingsbury

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

— Karen Kingsbury

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

— Karen Kingsbury

167. “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

168. “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

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

— Karen Kingsbury

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

— Karen Kingsbury

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

— Karen Kingsbury

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

— Karen Kingsbury

173. “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

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

— Karen Kingsbury

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

— Karen Kingsbury

176. “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

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

— Karen Kingsbury

178. “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

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

— Karen Kingsbury

180. “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

181. “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

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

— Karen Kingsbury

183. “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

184. “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

185. “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

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

— Karen Kingsbury

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

— Karen Kingsbury

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

— Karen Kingsbury

190. “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

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

— Karen Kingsbury

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

— Karen Kingsbury

193. “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

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

— Karen Kingsbury

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

— Karen Kingsbury

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

— Karen Kingsbury

197. “He knew something he hadn’t known before... He not only missed her. He still loved her.”

— Karen Kingsbury

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

— Karen Kingsbury

199. “You can’t move on while you’re clinging to a fantasy.”

— Karen Kingsbury

200. “It would be a year next Monday, a year since she’d left them. More and more he found himself reliving her final weeks, that crazy emotional roller coaster when the best and worst of times came together in a kaleidoscope of dark shadows and brilliant colors.”

— Karen Kingsbury