Karen Kingsbury Quotes & Sayings

Nothing could be gained by worrying and dreading the future, borrowing tomorrow's pain for today. — Karen Kingsbury

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

It wasn't that a child like Jalen needed so many voices praying on his behalf. God heard the desperate prayer of a single voice in a dark room. But sometimes something happened that caused the world to sit up and take notice. A time when miracles could sway a generation to believe in God. Miracles amidst tragedies. — Karen Kingsbury

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

Butterflies prove that God gives second chances. Because a butterfly spends most of its life as a caterpillar, scooting along on the ground, barely getting by. When a caterpillar sees a butterfly he thinks how wonderful it would be to fly. And then one day he gets tired. Very tired. He builds a little room, curls up inside, and takes a nap. Deep in his heart he wonders if maybe that's all. Maybe life is over. But one day the caterpillar wakes up, and God has done an amazing thing. The caterpillar hakes off the little room and feels something on his back. This time when he goes a bit down the tree branch he doesn't scoot like before. He flies! — Karen Kingsbury

Intimacy and sex are totally different things. Intimacy is a bond that God brings about between two married people. It comes from years of commitment, of sharing and talking and working through problems. Years of getting to know that person better than anyone else in life. A physical relationship with someone like that - that's intimacy. And anything less is a lie. — Karen Kingsbury

This was how Christians had fallen under the umbrella of being judgmental and narrow-minded. The idea that one sin could be singled out as the worst, the area God disliked most. — Karen Kingsbury

He called it The Bridge because that was how felt about books. They connected the past and the present, the present and the future. Books brought people together and gave them a path to worlds they would not otherwise experience. — Karen Kingsbury

This battle was far beyond her ability or his. Only God could save her life now. Without a miracle, she couldn't look forward to much more than the next day. — Karen Kingsbury

You need to get down among the people who are the dirtiest and dustiest, and the depravity, and you need to see Christ's light shining there. — Karen Kingsbury

Anger does not bring about the righteousness God desires. — Karen Kingsbury

But God's ways are better than man — Karen Kingsbury

This last year ... I learned something about family. Like it's not about blood alone. It's being connected ... it's growing up together and loving each other. It's believing in the same God and knowing you'd do anything for the person across from you at dinner. — Karen Kingsbury

Honesty was the glue in any relationship. — Karen Kingsbury

I mean, maybe I'd be a safe person for you, someone you could talk to without worrying that the press was going to capture every minute. — Karen Kingsbury

Pray on all occasions." Unlocked page 38. — Karen Kingsbury

God was in control. She had nothing to fear. No matter what happened next or how the outcome played in their lives, whatever triumph or tragedy might take place, God loved them. Nothing could ever change that. — Karen Kingsbury

Ever after's worth waiting for. Don't you think? — Karen Kingsbury

Ever feel like God wrote a part of the Bible just for you? — Karen Kingsbury

Every single person. Regardless of their sin struggle. — Karen Kingsbury

After that, his faith could never be something passive, a pleasant outing to a friendly church service. Faith became everything, because heaven held one of his own. He was passionate about making sure his family all wound up together in heaven. But here on earth, winning another Super Bowl ring was important too. — Karen Kingsbury

What if age didn't determine whether or not a person could truly understand what love was and whether it was real? — Karen Kingsbury

Love well, laugh often and live well for Christ. — Karen Kingsbury

We could figure out God's plan, then He wouldn't be God. — Karen Kingsbury

As I watched bookstores close, I began to wonder how that felt for the owners. Owning a bookstore was their dream and now they're struggling and seeing those dreams fall apart. — Karen Kingsbury

She would lay her pen down and do what she should've done a year ago. Let God be the Author. — Karen Kingsbury

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

Life is too short to be anything but real with the cast of characters God has placed in the story of your life. Love well, laugh often, and find your life in Christ. Don't hide away or be a follower. Be the wonderful unique person God made you to be, and know that your purpose will always be best when defined by your faith in him — Karen Kingsbury

The start of sin and destruction, discouragement and darkness, always happened with single thought. He couldn't stop that. Wrong thoughts were like the billboard signs on the highway of life. They were bound to come. Victory or defeat depended on how he handled the thought. "Take every thought captive to the obedience of Christ." The scripture from 2 Corinthians 10:5 came back to him now, the way it had countless other times. He grabbed the wayward thought and pushed it from his heart and mind. He wouldn't be afraid. Whatever happened ... God was in control. He had nothing to fear. The Lord had worked a miracle to this point. He wasn't finished yet. — Karen Kingsbury

God will give you strength. He can give you the strength to walk away from anything bad, no matter how trapped you feel. — Karen Kingsbury

Real love ... true love ... the kind that could last a lifetime would require a guy who loved God more than life, a guy who could lead her — Karen Kingsbury

Forgiveness makes you feel better. As soon as you forgive, you're free. — Karen Kingsbury

Watch your life and doctrine closely. Persevere in them, because if you do, you will save both yourself and your hearers. — Karen Kingsbury

Her heart was talking now... — Karen Kingsbury

We never want to tell someone we love them unless we really mean it." "Because love is forever and always. — Karen Kingsbury

God knows better than we do. He always does. Even when it doesn't make sense. — Karen Kingsbury

Strong in society, vocal about our beliefs." Her eyes were kind, but they held a no-nonsense look. "For you, that might mean speaking up for your faith, being the voice of truth for your cast. — Karen Kingsbury

Forgiveness can be the one thing that truly holds us back in our Christian walk. — Karen Kingsbury

Helping me. It's a full-time job, and I am grateful for your concern for my reader friends. Of course, thanks to my daughter and sons, who pull together - bringing me iced green tea and understanding my sometimes crazy schedule. I love that you know you're still first, before any deadline. Thank you to my mom, Anne Kingsbury, and to my sisters, Tricia and Sue. Mom, you are amazing as my assistant - working day and night sorting through the mail from my readers. I appreciate you more than you'll ever know. Traveling together these past years for Extraordinary Women and Women of Joy events has given us times that we will always treasure. Now we will be at Women — Karen Kingsbury

The thing with life is you get one chance. — Karen Kingsbury

I tell of hearts and souls and dances ...
Butterflies and second chances;
Desperate ones and dreamers bound,
Seeking life from barren ground,
Who suffer on in earthly fate
The bitter pain of agony hate,
Might but they stop and here forgive
Would break the bonds to breathe and live
And find that God in goodness brings
A chance for change, the hope of wings
To rest in Him, and self to die
And so become a butterfly. — Karen Kingsbury

There can be no growth for today and tomorrow by remaining where yesterday lives. — Karen Kingsbury

Sometimes, life is so hard you can only do the next thing. Whatever that is, just do the next thing. God will meet you there. — Karen Kingsbury

Though her life hadn't turned out anything like she'd planned, she knew that in the darkest times God was always working. Always. — Karen Kingsbury

Lasting peace is only found through a lifesaving relationship wit Jesus Christ ... knowing Christ means that all the world might be falling apart just outside your front door, maybe just inside it - yet that inner peace, that inner knowing, remains unshaken. — Karen Kingsbury

We must remember how to love, remember what's important, and remember God's truth as it applies to our relationships. — Karen Kingsbury

Life was not all laughter and mornings at the beach. It was okay to cry. — Karen Kingsbury

Please God ... lead me to that kind of love. Until then, help me to know that You are enough. — Karen Kingsbury

Maybe I'll open a bookstore," he smiled. "New and used books
so everyone has a chance to see the world through the pages of a story. — Karen Kingsbury

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

The truth was this: Love is a decision. — Karen Kingsbury

Sometimes hope for the future is found in the ashes of yesterday. — Karen Kingsbury

I always knew I wanted to be a writer. — Karen Kingsbury

Christian oftentimes meant walking through dark places in the journey and living only on an unseen, unfelt faith. — Karen Kingsbury

Wrinkles was her big gray cat. Sierra named him Wrinkles because when he was a little baby he had a wrinkly face. He slept in Sierra's room, but not always on the bed. Mommy said that was 'cause Wrinkles had an attitude. Most cats had attitudes, actually. — Karen Kingsbury

The way to stay connected to God was through His Word. — Karen Kingsbury

You're better off single," Bill had always told him. "More marketable. A relationship will threaten your role as America's heartthrob." And always he would add, "Whatever you do, Hill, don't get someone pregnant. It'd be a death knell to your image. — Karen Kingsbury

Secular writers can tell a story about the physical, the emotional, and the intellectual parts of a character. But no matter how well they tell the story, they miss a facet that is innately part of all of us - the spiritual. — Karen Kingsbury

(D.L. Moody, who said in his dying days)In a little while you will read in the newspaper that I am dead. Do not believe a word of it, for I will be more alive than ever before. — Karen Kingsbury

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

Sometimes when Katy prayed, she could almost hear God's answer - the quiet, still resonance of a Scripture deep in her heart or silent words of wisdom spoken by her parents or the Flanigans. — Karen Kingsbury

Not all things will be easy for you, Bailey. It's the hard things that grow us. If you need to get stronger as a performer, then you'll get stronger. — Karen Kingsbury

I told you... I've changed. God changed me. — Karen Kingsbury

God grows fragrant flowers of hope in the ashes of loss. — Karen Kingsbury

Sometimes God's voice is hard to hear over the world. — Karen Kingsbury

New steps. That's what it amounted to. The two of them were learning the steps that would bring them together, a dance that would take them into forever. A dance that could be nothing less than God's plan for their lives. — Karen Kingsbury

The next time that boy pursues you, he better do it like a dying man looking for water in a desert. When it's the right guy, you'll know, because he'll cherish you. — Karen Kingsbury

Real love never fails. — Karen Kingsbury

He would help her give her heart to the right guy ... all in His perfect timing. — Karen Kingsbury

I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story. — Karen Kingsbury

Let everyone, everywhere know that where Your name is called upon, Your people can win battles they never should've won. — Karen Kingsbury

It's not how we fall that defines us as Christians. It's how we get up again. — Karen Kingsbury

I love reading the Bible. It makes sense of the whole world — Karen Kingsbury

stand sentry in prayer — Karen Kingsbury

You don't have love without sacrifice; you can't have sacrifice without love. — Karen Kingsbury

As long as he was breathing, God's greatest task for him was not yet finished. His highest purpose in life was still unfulfilled ... God still had plans for him. — Karen Kingsbury

Don't blink, young people. Enjoy every minute. — Karen Kingsbury

Like a constant assurance Bailey carried with her, God remained. All things might change. Love could come and go and friendships could fade. But God stayed. It was the truth that kept her company on the loneliest nights. — Karen Kingsbury

Perfect is God's job. He's perfect enough for all of us. You need Him and I need Him. If you haven't made peace with that, then it's time. Today. — Karen Kingsbury

Don't worry about tomorrow - tomorrow would worry about itself. — Karen Kingsbury

He wished he had feelings for Andi, wanted to be interested in her ... But there were 10 quick reasons why he wasn't interested. The biggest: Bailey Flanigan. He could hear her laugh from across the room. He sighed, and it felt like it came from the basement of his soul. — Karen Kingsbury

Life changes, people come and go and seasons never last.
Karen kingsbury # Leaving — Karen Kingsbury

Police caught up with him on January 22 and again — Karen Kingsbury

Innocence was something that grew in the heart and shone through the eyes. — Karen Kingsbury

AS C.S. Lewis once said, for Joe life here on earth was only the title and cover page. And now he has begun the greatest story of all, one that no one on earth has ever read in which ever chapter is better than the last. — Karen Kingsbury

Life only comes at us one day at a time. That's where we need to let God meet us. — Karen Kingsbury

It's easy to step back and see something through the lens of personal bias. — Karen Kingsbury

The message of Christ's love is found in Isaiah, chapter sixty-one," the man was saying. "God himself will restore the crumbling foundations of your life. He will give you beauty for ashes. He'll provide redemption, no matter who you are, where you are. . . . — Karen Kingsbury

More tears rushed from the depths of her tortured soul ... The losses piled up. — Karen Kingsbury

My mom and dad built our family on faith in God. It's the most important part of our lives. — Karen Kingsbury

I write about true-life type things. — Karen Kingsbury

I'd wish you good luck, but I don't believe in it. — Karen Kingsbury

God was beyond faithful, always, all the time. — Karen Kingsbury

Hold fast to your faith. Temptation is a given; look for the way out! It is possible to fall! — Karen Kingsbury

It was the most terrifying part of being in love: that without a commitment to forever, separation was still possible. — Karen Kingsbury

Dealing with evil was something only the Lord could do, and in His timing He most certainly would deal with it. — Karen Kingsbury

Sunshine is just beyond the clouds Carl Joesph Gunner — Karen Kingsbury

My family and my faith are everything to me. — Karen Kingsbury

My characters are not plastic. — Karen Kingsbury

The way of a fool seems right to him, but a wise man listens to advice. — Karen Kingsbury