Chris Heimerdinger > Quotes

“There are only two forces at work in this world- black and white. Only people are grey.”
― Chris Heimerdinger, Gadiantons and the Silver Sword

“If you don't feel as close to God today as you did yesterday, who moved?”
― Chris Heimerdinger, Feathered Serpent, Part 1

“Knowing the precies answers is not as crucial as the certainty that the answers do, in fact, exist.”
― Chris Heimerdinger, Feathered Serpent, Part 2

“You are what you allow the Lord to make you.”
― Chris Heimerdinger, Feathered Serpent, Part 1

“We are the farmers of the future. If we desire all the gifts of God, if we seek to win the Golden Crown, we can't just sit back and watch. We have to make it happen.”
― Chris Heimerdinger, The Golden Crown

“Lasting happiness is the offspring of endurance.”
― Chris Heimerdinger, Feathered Serpent, Part 1

“Were all on a golden journey-every one of us. A journey inspired by golden dreams, and at the end awaits a golden crown of righteousness....please remember that every step is to be cherished. Every single one...”
― Chris Heimerdinger, The Golden Crown

“The Lord has told me that the last generation before His final coming will consist of His choicest children since the creation of the earth. But you will face a world filled with much pain and evil. Men...will gain great power over God's children. Youth such as yourselves will have a great responsibility to build up a pure and undefiled people in the midst of all this pain.”
― Chris Heimerdinger

“Knowing the precise answers is not as crucial as the certainty that the answers do, in fact, exist. All we really want to know is that the helm is not unmanned. That the advocates of goodness and glory are still in control. That righteousness reigns. That perfection awaits. That the Atonement is real and available.”
― Chris Heimerdinger, Feathered Serpent, Part 2

“Though I’m old and blind, I promise to put up a worthy fight. Probably kill half of you. No matter how harmless I may seem, you better know the blood running in my veins is that of a Nephite.”
― Chris Heimerdinger, Tennis Shoes Among the Nephites

“The Lord commands us to learn and discover all we can in this life. There's nothing wrong with wanting to know the mysteries of outer space or the latent powers of the mind. The problem comes when we desire to use that knowledge for our own gratification, rather than to build the kingdom of God.”
― Chris Heimerdinger, Gadiantons and the Silver Sword

“...Teachings are given to different men under different circumstances and in different times... [but] ...the Lord is the same yesterday, today and forever. If a parent commands a little child not to play with matches, and then commands a teenager to light the campfire, is this a contradiction? It's only a question of preparedness - one is ready and one is not.”
― Chris Heimerdinger, Gadiantons and the Silver Sword

“The Lord commands us to learn and discover all we can in this life. There's nothing wrong with wanting to know the mysteries of outer space or the latent powers of the mind. The problem comes when we desire to use that knowledge for our own gratification, rather than to build the kingdom of God... It's an unwise habit to use knowledge to further personal ends. Truth should never be used as a means to make us prisoners. It was meant to make us free.”
― Chris Heimerdinger, Gadiantons and the Silver Sword

“... We [can't] escape the influence of sin in the world, but [do] we have to pay money to see and hear it firsthand?”
― Chris Heimerdinger, Gadiantons and the Silver Sword

“Nephites,” he added, “love to talk and find it particularly annoying to be quieted.”
― Chris Heimerdinger, Tennis Shoes Among the Nephites

“I realized that no one can ever take anything from the Lord for granted, not the prosperity of the Church, not its vast army of missionaries, not its beautiful meeting houses and temples, nor the wealth and comfort he may enjoy. If apathy or complacency or unrighteousness reigns in the heart of a Saint, the gospel will be stripped away and given to another, more responsible steward.”
― Chris Heimerdinger, Feathered Serpent, Part 2

“Miracles happen all the time, Dad. But it’s not likely you’ll know about ’em if you’re not where the Lord wants you to be, and doin’ what he wants you to do.”
― Chris Heimerdinger, Tennis Shoes Among the Nephites

“In memory of our God, our religion, and freedom, and our peace, our wives, and our children.”
― Chris Heimerdinger, Tennis Shoes Among the Nephites

“If it so be that they shall keep his commandments they shall be blessed upon the face of this land, and there shall be none to molest them, nor to take away the land of their inheritance, and they shall dwell safely forever.”
― Chris Heimerdinger, Tennis Shoes Among the Nephites

“Whoso should possess this land of promise, should serve him, the true and only God, or they should be swept off when the fullness of his wrath shall come upon them.”
― Chris Heimerdinger, Tennis Shoes Among the Nephites

“Lamanite warriors love to interrupt any time a Nephite opens his mouth,”
― Chris Heimerdinger, Tennis Shoes Among the Nephites

“we saw the prophet’s brother, Timothy, stoned to death before our eyes. Then we watched as he was raised from the dead by the power of God under the hands of the Nephi.”
― Chris Heimerdinger, Tennis Shoes: Feathered Serpent, Part 2

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― Chris Heimerdinger, The Lost Scrolls

“Honor your father and your mother that your days may be long upon the land.”
― Chris Heimerdinger, Tennis Shoes Among the Nephites