Karen Burton Mains Quotes & Sayings

The heart is a vessel not large enough to sustain love. Kneeling is the proper position for discovering love again. — Karen Burton Mains

When we understand that He is Lord of our time, we realize that interruptions are of His planning. They become opportunities to serve rather than plagues to keep us from functioning. — Karen Burton Mains

Home is the place we should return to with eager spirits, the journey's end we reach with sighs of contentment. — Karen Burton Mains

Secular entertaining is a terrible bondage. Its source is human pride. Demanding perfection, fostering the urge to impress, it is a rigorous taskmaster which enslaves. In contrast, Scriptural hospitality is a freedom which liberates. — Karen Burton Mains

Hospitality, however, seeks to minister. It says, "This home is not mine. It is truly a gift from my Master. I am His servant and I use it as He desires." Hospitality does not try to impress, but to serve. — Karen Burton Mains

Fruitfulness may be a better measurement for success than productivity because it is based more in the evaluations of others as to the meaningful role we have played in their lives then in our own importance determined according to the amount of accomplishments we can list. — Karen Burton Mains