The Chance Quotes

“Forgiveness makes you feel better. As soon as you forgive, you're free.”
― Karen Kingsbury, The Chance

“It's never too late with truth. It stands outside time.”
― Karen Kingsbury, The Chance

“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, The Chance

“More tears rushed from the depths of her tortured soul. ... The losses piled up.”
― Karen Kingsbury, The Chance

“Very simply, God had forgiven her...Amazing grace was something she knew personally. The only right response for the rest of her life was to extend that grace to others, to forgive the way she had been forgiven.”
― Karen Kingsbury, The Chance

“The devastation of his actions, his meanness, felt like bags of rancid trash heaped around him.”
― Karen Kingsbury, The Chance

“I pray for her every night...

Keep praying. God hears you...

I know. And Pastor says that some people take longer to find their happy- ever-after in Jesus.

That's right. Some people take a little longer.”
― Karen Kingsbury, The Chance

“The start of sin and destruction, discouragement and darkness, always happened with single thought. He couldn't stop that. Wrong thoughts were like the billboard signs on the highway of life. They were bound to come. Victory or defeat depended on how he handled the thought. "Take every thought captive to the obedience of Christ." The scripture from 2 Corinthians 10:5 came back to him now, the way it had countless other times. He grabbed the wayward thought and pushed it from his heart and mind. He wouldn't be afraid. Whatever happened... God was in control. He had nothing to fear. The Lord had worked a miracle to this point. He wasn't finished yet.”
― Karen Kingsbury, The Chance

“A tsunami of heartbreak consumed the landscape of her heart, wiping out all she has known or assumed or believed to be real over the last eleven years.”
― Karen Kingsbury, The Chance