Kay Arthur
American Author
| Date of Birth | : | 11 Nov, 1933 |
| Place of Birth | : | Jackson, Michigan, United States |
| Profession | : | Author |
| Nationality | : | American |
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Kay Lee Arthur is an American Christian author, Bible teacher and co-founder of Precept Ministries International. She has won the ECPA Christian Book Award four times.
Early life and education
Kay Lee Arthur was born on November 11, 1933, in Jackson, Michigan. She grew up in a religious household, which moved frequently. Arthur graduated from nursing school in 1955 when she was 21 years old and married her first husband, Frank Thomas Goetz, Jr. The couple were divorced in 1961. Previously disconnected from her religion, Arthur became newly committed to Christianity in 1963.
Arthur moved to Chattanooga, Tennessee to attend Tennessee Temple University, where she earned a Nursing diploma. There, she met Jack Arthur (born March 14, 1926), who had graduated from TTU with a Graduate in Theology in 1956. The couple married on December 16, 1965 and served as missionaries in Mexico. Medical issues forced them to leave Mexico and return to the US.
Personal life
Kay has three sons (two from her first marriage, one from her second) and nine grandchildren. Arthur's husband, Jack, died from Alzheimer's disease in Chattanooga, on January 9, 2017, at age 90.
Quotes
Total 34 Quotes
If you are God's child, you are no longer bound to your past or to what you were. You're a new creature in Jesus Christ.
What is courage? It is the ability to be strong in trust, in conviction, in obedience. To be courageous is to step out in faith - to trust and obey, no matter what.
When you know what God says, what He means, and how to put His truths into practice, you will be equipped for every circumstance of life.
Pain and trials are almost constant companions, but never enemies. They drive me into His sovereign arms. There He takes my disappointments and works everything together for good.
The problem is that so often we forget that we are in warfare and that Satan's target is our mind.
Love has its source in God, for love is the very essence of His being.
Ultimately, the goal of personal Bible study is a transformed life and a deep and abiding relationship with Jesus Christ.
You can be defeated by life's unavoidable disappointments, or you can become stronger because of them.
God is in control and therefore in everything I can give thanks.
When we are set free from the bondage of pleasing others, when we are free from currying others'approval-then no one will be able to make us miserable or dissatisfied. And then, if we know we have pleased God, contentment will be our consolation.
