Top 120 Karen Witemeyer Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “God desires his people to be abounding in love and good works. To be people of integrity and honor. People who reflect his character. But we are human – sinful people capable of evil deeds.”

— Karen Witemeyer

102. “The silence he’d thought a blessing had become a curse. It ate at him. Rubbed him raw. He wanted to return to the easy camaraderie they’d shared before the storm, but she wouldn’t let him. She avoided him. Why? How could she tell him she loved him then immediately start acting as if she didn’t? At.”

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103. “The longer the anger lives in you, the more it erodes your soul and destroys your relationships. If you’re not careful, one day it’ll hollow you out and leave you with nothing.”

— Karen Witemeyer

104. “There was only Matthew. The rugged, straightforward captain, with his square jaw and horseshoe mustache, looking at her with an intensity that made her believe cardiac somersaults were anatomically possible.”

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105. “You are the marryin’ kind. Right, Barrett?” Starting to regain his equilibrium, Dan squeezed his boss’s – no, his ex-boss’s – hand and smiled. “Only where Etta is concerned.” “Well, then.” The man’s eyes actually twinkled. “Get on after it, boy. It’ll take me at least twenty minutes to see to my horse.” Dan.”

— Karen Witemeyer

106. “She glanced at him and winked. Gideon found himself enchanted all over again. Her clothes might be a wrinkled, mismatched mess, and strands of her hair might be sticking out at odd angles from the knot at her neck, but when he looked at her, he saw a princess. Now he just had to convince her to marry him.”

— Karen Witemeyer

107. “Perhaps he felt a touch of gratitude too for the fact that they had each other, for better or worse. They might be facing the worse right now, but the fact that they could lean on each other in the midst of it moved it into the better category.”

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108. “Certainty of purpose pumping with every heartbeat. That rare sense of satisfaction that came only when one responded to the call to the direct call of the Lord.”

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109. “But when you continue clinging to your feelings of guilt, this God-given mission becomes nothing more than self-imposed penance.”

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110. “He made a glorious picture. Tall in the saddle. Valiant. Unafraid of the dangers that lurked ahead. A hero on a noble quest. A rather romantic notion for a woman who’d packed away dreams of handsome knights long ago in favor of the reality of a career in medicine.”

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111. “Westcott Cottage did have a handsome prince as it turned out, and she’d just floured him like a drumstick headed for the frying pan.”

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112. “Boldness is exactly what you need to run your own business, girl. Boldness, skill, and a lot of hard work. When you get that shop of yours, hardships are sure to find their way to your doorstep. Confidence is the only way to combat them – confidence in yourself and in the God who equips you to overcome. Never forget that.”

— Karen Witemeyer

113. “Just because they’d lost didn’t mean the battle hadn’t been worth waging.”

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114. “Unfortunately, Mr. Beekman was nearing fifty and had breath that could kill a bread dough’s rise at twenty paces.”

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115. “Every time he came in, he tried to charm me into tellin’ him my name, but I never did. I was too aware of who I was. And who I wasn’t.”

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116. “I love you, Rosalind Kemp. You. The woman who is kind to lonely old ladies and ornery boys.”

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117. “He’d listened to enough half-truths and outright lies from the outlaws he’d collected bounties on not to notice the slight hesitations in her speech or the exaggerated casualness of her posture. The woman was up to something. Heeding.”

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118. “She had curled up with those books on more than one occasion, and yes, she had dreamt of a handsome, red-haired man of action, but it hadn’t been Dead-Eye Dan, drat it all. She’d dreamt of Daniel Barrett, the man who worked her father’s cattle, who trained the finest mules in the county, and whose sky-blue eyes could melt her heart with a single glance. Daniel Barrett had stolen her heart before she’d ever even heard of Dead-Eye Dan. “I.”

— Karen Witemeyer

119. “I know enough,” Caleb shifted his gaze to Rosalind, but she wouldn’t meet his eyes. She had dropped her head and rounded her shoulders. So he moved in front of her and took her hands in his. “I know that we all make mistakes and shouldn’t cast stones. I know that I love her with all of my heart and want to build a life with her if she’ll have me.”

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120. “He’d never thought himself a setting-down kind of man. Until he met Josie with her ten-dollar words and her determination to make a place for herself in a man’s profession.”

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121. “He’d felt God’s gentle urging in his life before, but never had it been so overt. It was as if a general had ridden onto the battlefield to direct the operation himself instead of leaving it in the hands of his officers.”

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122. “The woman might think God spared his life in part so he could be here when she found herself in desperate need of employment, but he knew the truth. God had not brought Nicole to Oakhaven for a job. He’d brought her here to pull the thorn out of a stubborn bear of a man’s paw so that he could finally start to heal. And something told him if he allowed her to leave him, an even larger thorn would take its place. One from which he might never recover.”

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123. “His gaze trailed over her face, memorizing each line and curve. She’d been his wife for little more than a fortnight, but she owned his heart. If anything happened to her, he’d be lost.”

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124. “Dr. Jacob was tearing a piece of white cotton into strips. White cotton that must have belonged to his shirt at one time, for the man was bare to the waist. Well, not completely bare. He’d put his black vest back on. Not that it covered much. She still saw every play of his muscles as he tore the cotton. Very fine muscles, she couldn’t help but notice.”

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125. “He wished Nicole’s problems were as easily solved. He watched the light green skirts ahead of him sway as she extended her lead. Why did he get the feeling she was putting more than physical distance between them? He couldn’t allow that. Not if he planned to protect her. Nicole might try to run, but he’d not let her hide. Not from him.”

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126. “Her heart felt like it had been thrown around like a child on a twenty-foot seesaw – exhilarating highs followed by crashing lows, only to repeat with new joys and terrifying fears. It left her light-headed, off-balance, and a tiny bit nauseated.”

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127. “To be chosen for herself – it was the secret desire of her heart. To be important to someone. More than a glorified servant who fetched and carried and entertained at her aunt’s whim. To be wanted truly for herself. Seen instead of invisible. Valued instead of tolerated.”

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128. “I’d walk through fire for you.” His murmured vow rumbled deep in his throat an instant before he sealed his promise with a kiss.”

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129. “Jericho Tucker, the man who thanks God every day for bringing beauty back into his life, is asking a dressmaker to marry him.” He inhaled a shuddering breath and captured her hands between his own. “Will you, Hannah? Will you marry this grouchy old liveryman who loves you more than life itself?”

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130. “Patience was a virtue, but sometimes it was an excuse to stay on the easy path of conflict avoidance.”

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131. “But when this slip of a girl with trust blazing in her bright blue eyes looked at him, all he could think about was protecting the one piece of the outside world that had found a way in.”

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132. “You don’t have to earn your place here, Penelope,” he’d said. “This is your home now. You’re one of us, and we take care of our own.”

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133. “He forced himself to look at her. “That’s the man I am, Damaris. Discontent, dangerous, and a tiny bit deranged.” “Hmm. I think I prefer driven, devoted, and dependable.”

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134. “But if each man and woman were defined solely by their greatest sin, what hope would there be for any of us?”

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135. “If we want the Lord to accomplish mighty deeds in our own lives, the first step is to put what we have in His hands.”

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136. “But I had my heart set on naming our firstborn Megiddo.”

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137. “You might be a little rough around the edges, Luke Davenport,” she said, stepping close enough to lay her palm lightly on his chest, “but in here beats a noble heart.”

— Karen Witemeyer