Quotes from Kristen Heitzmann

Christ] has accomplished your salvation. But He has not yet perfected your circumstances. Do not be confused in the two.

When you pray, all heaven prays with you. That's a mighty army.

His gaze was so soft that she would like to wrap herself with it.

If you think beauty insipid, you haven't experienced it. Nor is it always devoid of suffering. That's something religious artists have always understood, Michelangelo, Chagall, and Van Gogh, Beethoven, C.S. Lewis, and all the writer's for whom beauty is a gift and a calling.

God's love was like the sunrise, chasing back the dark and piercing the heart with joy.

the eye is the window to the soul, and from the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks, why can't we all be blind and dumb?

She headed for a wide flat rock on the creek's bank, her posture still demanding 'no trespassing' but no longer 'trespassers will be shot.

It was not so much that he was shut out, but that she was trapped inside.

I think I could get full just smelling this.

know that sounds premature, but I won't date anyone again that I can't imagine growing old with.

Everyone wants to be worth a little sacrifice.

Good food, good friends.

Knowing the Lord was in their midst took the edge off the agony. Told You Twice

Forget what I said. None of that matters, you know why? Because it's still a choice. Everyone gets hurt. It's what you do with it that matters.' 'Can you change how you feel?' 'No. But you can change how you act.

No deity that ruled with fear and torment could win the hearts of its followers. They became animals themselves, thinking of baser and baser modes of worship until they threw their very infants to the flames. Only in Jesus was submission perfected, God made man. And through Jesus, man committed his heart to the only entity worthy of service—

Life peels us like an onion and every layer is softer and sweeter.

everyone has different challenges, different needs and strengths. Choices have consequences, but I now think that, even in the pits and traps, the Lord can make a way through.

what is God? "He's truth; He's meaning. He's my purpose and yours. With terrorists wiping people out, dealers hooking kids on meth and ecstasy, violence and cruelty; there's still love, comfort, joy, and hope. That's God. Without him, none of it makes sense.

The heart of everything is faith. Without it, life has no meaning. With it, everything is ennobled.

We talk about normal, and for legal and practical reasons set a bar for expected societal norms. But can any of us really claim normality?" Rese

Feelings were not enough. There must be more. There must be trust, respect, honor. All that she longed to give Quillan. A warmth of appreciation filled her. She loved him with something that went beyond feelings.

The thing is done; it can't be undone. How can one go back and change a moment passed? Even a moment that should never have come. I fear with the deed I have lost not only my virtue but my life as well. For of all life's betrayers, the heart is the worst. It flutters with joyful anticipation, leading down paths better untrod. Now that I know my heart, I must never follow it again.

You don't need luck. Everything you need is right inside you.

The human capacity for suffering was like that for joy. It could only have the greatest impact in small doses. After that, mind and body could no longer take it in.