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