Best Karen Kingsbury Quotes & Sayings

I think back on our story, the things we could've done differently. — Karen Kingsbury

The apostle Paul said it best. For me, to live is Christ and to die is gain. How could they do anything but celebrate this moment? All of them would face it one day ... in a fraction of an instant, in the midst of a lifetime it would be their turn. — Karen Kingsbury

I pray for her every night ...
Keep praying. God hears you ...
I know. And Pastor says that some people take longer to find their happy- ever-after in Jesus.
That's right. Some people take a little longer. — 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

Wow." Lisa motioned for Keith to stop for a moment. "Look at this place. It's like the perfect family house. The porch and the windows, even from here, it feels like the walls have seen a lifetime of love. — Karen Kingsbury

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

People fell. They sinned and made mistakes and acted out crazy decisions that went against everything they knew to be true. And even then there was room for redemption. — Karen Kingsbury

Nothing about tomorrow was promised to them; Jamie understood that. But as long as God gave them the gift of today, she would cherish it with all her heart. — Karen Kingsbury

Believers need to be visible, — Karen Kingsbury

If you and someone you love have a difference of opinion on something, maybe its beset to let it stay that way. Respect each other's right to believe what you believe. Respect each other. Agree to disagree. — 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

Anyway, my faith's what drives me. God and I are sort of best friends, I guess. — Karen Kingsbury

Every single person. Regardless of their sin struggle. — 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

God was in control. He wouldn't take them through a season where He hadn't gone first. — Karen Kingsbury

You're gifted to do something. — 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

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

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

They'd had fun, for sure. They laughed and enjoyed being together. But if she was painfully honest with herself, something was missing. Something in the way Tim looked at her. She remembered her mom's word. "I saw the way he looked at you ... he adores you." Maybe that was it. Tim looked at her on a surface level. He smiled and seemed happy to see her. But When Cody looked at her, there were no layers left, nothing her didn't reveal, nothing he couldn't see. He didn't really look at her so much as he looked into her. To the deepest, most real places in her heart and soul. — Karen Kingsbury

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

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

The issues are complex, and so I think sometimes the best way to work things out is, well, not to work them out. — Karen Kingsbury

God, please now my future see, make it clear where I should be. Open windows, close the doors, not my will, my God, but Yours. — 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

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

Some days are just harder than others. — 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

Catherine wasn't going to settle. Not in life, and not in love. — 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

Real love understands about love and sacrifice and is willing to live accordingly. — Karen Kingsbury

They both began to giggle and then they fell into a side splitting round of laughter, the cleansing, complete sort of laughter only a mother and daughter can share. — Karen Kingsbury

It takes two to make a marriage work and two to make it fall apart. — Karen Kingsbury

But you need more than love, Em. Sometimes you need common ground. — Karen Kingsbury

If she could make this journey three times a week while seven-year-old Sierra was at school---then she could get through another long, dark night. She could face the empty place in the bed beside her, face the longing — Karen Kingsbury

You have one chance to write the story of your life. Make it a bestseller. — Karen Kingsbury

The Flanigan family had a love that could laugh through anything, a love that knew no color barriers or resentment. — Karen Kingsbury