Karen Kingsbury Quotes

Love happens when people forgive.

Friends don't get jealous of each other or begrudge the other for finding success. They celebrate every victory together.

Perfect love drives out fear

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.

God stays awake all the time. In case we need to talk to Him about something.

Christmas is a time to mark our progress through this earthly journey. Because of Christmas, this we know: Christ was born for us. He is love, and the plans he has for us always surpass our own.

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

God grows fragrant flowers of hope in the ashes of loss.

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.

Life is too short for half-hearted connections and meaningless run-throughs.

The truth was this: Love is a decision.

Readers need to see themselves between the lines of the story.

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.

Real love never fails.

It's never too late with truth. It stands outside time.

You're gifted to do something.

Goodbyes are on of the hardest things about life. One way or another people were always leaving... Always moving on.

Her eyes held an endless kind of love for him.

Never be passive. Victories happen when you take charge of a game. You can't win by playing not to lose".

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

I'm receiving 300 to 500 letters every week from people telling me that God used my stories to save their marriage or to introduce them to Christ or to heal a relationship that had been broken.

The more bad choices you make, the less bad your choices seem.

Love well, laugh often and live well for Christ.

Reader loyalty will stay because I'm not changing.

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

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

Three years? That's a thousand tomorrows, ma'am.

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.

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

There were times when I was so sick of talking about the Bible.

The general market wants what I do.

I write about true-life type things.

I always knew I wanted to be a writer.

My parents used to say faith wasn't something you could pretend about. It wasn't real unless it looked like faith and acted like faith.

I came to Christ in my early 20s.

My characters are not plastic.

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

sunshine is just beyond the clouds" Carl Joesph Gunner

Pray on all occasions." Unlocked page 38.

Because love was a light that wouldn't allow darkness to reign in his soul.

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

You need to have time to really hear God.

You can't base your decisions on anyone's opinion but yours and God's.

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.

People were never meant to be idols. We aren't supposed to be worshipped. Only God deserves that kind of praise.

Love is what happens when we forgive. I forgive Connor Evans. A part of me will always love him, but from this day on I won't hate him. Not for one minute. I forgive him because he gave me Max.

For a long while she only looked at him ... as if she didn't want to interrupt the beautiful moment with words.

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

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