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.

I fear it's because religion is man's attempt to reach God, and when he feels he has succeeded, he cannot abide anyone else's claim to have done the same.

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.

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.

I put off writing the first Left Behind book for a year because I got invited to assist Billy Graham in his memoirs, and had we known what we were putting off for a year, we might not have put it off.

Funny, I don't feel any more powerful today than yesterday.

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

Books that do a tenth of what Left Behind has done are smashing successes.