Kristen Heitzmann Quotes

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

— Kristen Heitzmann

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

— Kristen Heitzmann

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

— Kristen Heitzmann

“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.”

— Kristen Heitzmann

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

— Kristen Heitzmann

“Everyone wants to be worth a little sacrifice.”

— Kristen Heitzmann

“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.”

— Kristen Heitzmann

“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.”

— Kristen Heitzmann

“I think I could get full just smelling this.”

— Kristen Heitzmann

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

— Kristen Heitzmann

Good food, good friends.

— Kristen Heitzmann

“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?”

— Kristen Heitzmann

“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.”

— Kristen Heitzmann

“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-”

— Kristen Heitzmann

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

— Kristen Heitzmann

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

— Kristen Heitzmann

“Excellence is praised." "Praise inspires excellence.”

— Kristen Heitzmann

“On the brink alone he stands with quick and eager feet. Jump across and run, boy, don't worry what you'll meet. For in the days before you, life will intervene With all the things you yearn to see and all that you have seen ... . Don't close your eyes and wonder what lies across the gap; There is no road before you; you cannot find the map. For with your heart you forge a way that angels fear to tread, And gather up your troubles for the day when you are dead, And gather up your troubles for the day when you are dead ... . Run, boy, run. Run with all your might. The sunrise burns before you, and on your heels the night. And if the darkness lingers long, you'll lose your soul's own song; Yes, if the darkness lingers, you'll lose your own soul's song.”

— Kristen Heitzmann

Because words unsaid can change a course as surely as words said.

— Kristen Heitzmann

“So little I know in my innocence. Ideals, like pebbles in a stream wash away, wash away. Life makes no sense.”

— Kristen Heitzmann