Karen Kingsbury famous quotes

Love happens when people forgive.
-- Karen Kingsbury

#People #Forgiving

I'm probably the most loquacious author when it comes to my dedications. The reason is there is some symbolism there. I've been writing these books, bringing these stories to my readers who I love so much, and I have a greater love for my family.
-- Karen Kingsbury

#Book #Writing #Dedication

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

#Jealous #Victory #Together

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

#Men #Boys #Water

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

#Needs #Cases #Awake

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.
-- Karen Kingsbury

#Inspirational #Journey #Progress

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

#Too Late

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

#Love Is #Decision

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

#Spiritual #Character #Emotional

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

#Goodbye #Moving #People

But the Beast was a good person...the Prince looked on the outside the way the Beast was on the inside. Sometimes people couldn't see the inside of the person unless they like the outside of a person. Because they hadn't learned to hear the music yet.
-- Karen Kingsbury

#People #Way #Sometimes

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

#Flower #Loss #Ashes

Readers need to see themselves between the lines of the story.
-- Karen Kingsbury

#Needs #Stories #Lines

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

#Idols #People #Kind

Reader loyalty will stay because I'm not changing.
-- Karen Kingsbury

#Loyalty #Reader

The general market wants what I do.
-- Karen Kingsbury

#Want

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

#Talking #Sick #So Sick

You need to have time to really hear God.
-- Karen Kingsbury

#Needs

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

#Light #People #Shining

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

#Decision #Opinion

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

#Pages #Praying #All Occasions

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

#Sacrifice #Without Sacrifice

The eagle had two natural enemies: storms and serpents. He embraced the storm, waiting on the rock for the right thermal current and then using that to carry him higher. While other birds were taking cover, the eagle was soaring. An eagle would never fight against the storms of life.
-- Karen Kingsbury

#Fighting #Rocks #Eagles

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

#Pain #Hate #Heart

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

#Writing #True Life #Type

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

#Running #Life Is Too Short #Connections

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

#Winning #Games #Victory

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

#Grief #Years #Three

Real love never fails.
-- Karen Kingsbury

#Real #Real Love #Failing

You're gifted to do something.
-- Karen Kingsbury

#Gifted

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

#Gone #Levels #May

I developed a deep sadness for celebrities, a pity that they often are caught in a plastic world that runs too hard and too fast, and that many times that world means destroyed relationships with everyone they know and love.
-- Karen Kingsbury

#Running #Sadness #Mean

The death of a friendship was usually slow and insidious, like the wearing away of a hillside after years of too much rain. A handful of misunderstandings, a season of miscommunication, the passing of time, and where once stood two women with a dozen years of memories and tears and conversation and laughter—where once stood two women closer than sisters—now stood two strangers.
-- Karen Kingsbury

#Laughter #Memories #Rain

Christmas is ... a time to mark our progress through this earthly journey. Every December we can look back and marvel at the designs of God and realize how very little we are in control of the events that shaped the past year. Then, with hearts full, look to the celebration of that silent, holy night, and all its certainty. Because of Christmas, this we know: Christ was born for us. He is love, and the plans he has for us always surpass those of our own.
-- Karen Kingsbury

#Christmas #Heart #Past

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

#Important #How To Love #Remember

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

#Mom #Fun #Real

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

#Wanted

A verse came to mind, one that has comforted Kari before. It was the shortest verse in the Bible: Jesus wept. If he cried over Jerusalem, if he cried over the death of Lazarus, surely he was crying now over the death of her dreams, the death of her marriage.
-- Karen Kingsbury

#Dream #Jesus #Mind

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

#Wise #Men #Advice

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

#Two #Forever #Together

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.
-- Karen Kingsbury

#Real #Parent #Used

Perfect love drives out fear
-- Karen Kingsbury

#Perfect #Perfect Love

Her eyes held an endless kind of love for him.
-- Karen Kingsbury

#Eye #Kind #Endless

My characters are not plastic.
-- Karen Kingsbury

#Character #Plastic

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

#Doors #Window #Should

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

#Light #Soul #Darkness

sunshine is just beyond the clouds" Carl Joesph Gunner
-- Karen Kingsbury

#Sunshine #Clouds #Gunners

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

#Forgiveness #Feel Better #Forgiving

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

#Breathing #Long #Tasks

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

#Real #Life Is Too Short #Character

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

#Life Changing #People #Leaving

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

#Writing #Triumph #Stories

I came to Christ in my early 20s.
-- Karen Kingsbury

#Christ

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

#Choices

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.
-- Karen Kingsbury

#Relationship #People #Broken

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

#Christian #Fall

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

#Laughing #Christ #Live Well

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

#Growing Up #Believe #Knowing