Karen Kingsbury Quotes
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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.
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God grows fragrant flowers of hope in the ashes of loss.
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sunshine is just beyond the clouds" Carl Joesph Gunner
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It's not how we fall that defines us as Christians. It's how we get up again.
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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.
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Reader loyalty will stay because I'm not changing.
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Readers need to see themselves between the lines of the story.
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I write about true-life type things.
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People were never meant to be idols. We aren't supposed to be worshipped. Only God deserves that kind of praise.
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Love happens when people forgive.
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It's never too late with truth. It stands outside time.
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I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story.
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Perfect love drives out fear
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Pray on all occasions." Unlocked page 38.
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I always knew I wanted to be a writer.
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You need to have time to really hear God.
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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.
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There were times when I was so sick of talking about the Bible.
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You don't have love without sacrifice; you can't have sacrifice without love.
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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.
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We must remember how to love, remember what's important, and remember God's truth as it applies to our relationships.
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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.
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Her eyes held an endless kind of love for him.
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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.
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I came to Christ in my early 20s.
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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.
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Friends don't get jealous of each other or begrudge the other for finding success. They celebrate every victory together.
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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.
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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.
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Never be passive. Victories happen when you take charge of a game. You can't win by playing not to lose".
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