Top 35 Quotes by Jerry B. Jenkins

Tim sends me a fairly ambitious workup in notebook form noting the passages we're going to cover and the chronology of the biblical events, and his commentaries on those things he's read and written.

Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.

The uninitiated have real questions and valid concerns over how the things of God appear to them.

I don't see success as the goal. Obedience is the goal.

Left Behind takes what to some people may be unbelievable predictions from the Bible and shows how they might play out. It makes the events of biblical prophecy understandable and thus believable.

SOON was the first novel where I used a rough outline. Usually I have characters and an idea and write as a process of discovery. Like working without a net.

My dream remains to inform and entertain through fiction in the form of novels and movies that compete in the marketplace of ideas.

I was raised in a Christian home and, in fact, my mother led me to Christ as a youngster.

The theater of the mind is impossible to compete with, and I like the idea that with a few suggestions, each reader forms in his or her own mind what a character or a place looks like.

When I was a junior camp counselor and it was my job to tell the campers a bedtime story or devotional, I would tell them a rapture story.