Karen Kingsbury Quotes

Prayer is not so much the means whereby God's will is bent to man's desires, as it is that whereby man's will is bent to God's desires.

Lord, what wilt Thou have me to do?

I believe we must seek God's will, never presuming to identify it with our own program or power.

It is my earnest desire to know the will of Providence in this matter. And if I can learn what is I will do it.

I prayed about it consistently - that God would direct me in the right path and that, when it would happen, I would know that I'm in the right place.

Mom could say that in hindsight, but it seemed to me that when you were in the middle of something, it was awful hard to figure out what part of it was God's will and what wasn't.

If I do not know the will of my Father, and what He requires of me in a certain transaction, if I ask Him to give me wisdom concerning any requirement in my life, or in regard to my own course, or that of my friends, my family, my children, or those that I preside over, and get no answer from Him, and then do the very best that my judgement will teach me, He is bound to own and honor that transaction, and He will do so to all intents and purposes.

Pay attention to the people God puts in your path if you want to discern what God is up to in your life.

God does have a specific plan for our lives, but it is not one that He expects us to figure out before we make a decision.

Proceed with much prayer, and your way will be made plain.

I used to pray that God would do this or that; now I pray that God will make His will known to me.

I have felt the inspiration of the living God directing me in my labors.

It's an exciting life. I don't know where God is leading us. I just know that He opens doors and He closes the doors, and it is always the best for us.

I think often that God is guiding me.

I asked God if it was a sin and He didn't say anything.

When I pray, I pray believing that God will speak to me and give me an answer to that prayer. That's what a calling is. If I pray, a calling means that I feel like I have a sense from God.

People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker.

The success and the failure are not my concern, but His.

I can look at the future with anticipation. And it's comforting to know that someday, as Christians, we'll be able to look back and have a little more clarity on why certain things in life happened.

It's funny how God will just keep using you, and our motto around our family forever has been, 'Just let Him use you.'

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.

It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills.

God answers prayers, but he doesn't always answer it your way.

My opinion is that I follow what the Lord says. Or I try to. Others are following what they want to do, basically. They are living for their self. I am living for God.

It is always a dangerous symptom when men pray to know what is their duty.