Quotes from Karen Kingsbury

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

I came to Christ in my early 20s.

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

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.

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

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

My characters are not plastic.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

I write about true-life type things.

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

You're gifted to do 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.

Reader loyalty will stay because I'm not changing.

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.

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

You need to have time to really hear God.

Love happens when people forgive.

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.

Her eyes held an endless kind of love for him.