Jerry B. Jenkins Quotes & Sayings
Enjoy the top 46 famous quotes, sayings and quotations by Jerry B. Jenkins.
Famous Quotes By Jerry B. Jenkins
I've written enough books with real celebrities, such as Walter Payton and Hank Aaron and Billy Graham, to know that fame looks good only to people who don't have it. — Jerry B. Jenkins
Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family. — Jerry B. Jenkins
We sometimes idealize the early church and want our churches to go back to the simple, old ways. We need to carefully read the history. Harmony takes work. — Jerry B. Jenkins
It's made me more expectant of the imminent return of Jesus, and also more sensitive to the people around me. Knowing Jesus will return soon makes me want all the more to tell people about him and all that he offers. — Jerry B. Jenkins
You can't understand where someone's going unless you understand where they've been. — Jerry B. Jenkins
I was raised as a Christian but the transaction has to be made by yourself - you and God - at some point. — Jerry B. Jenkins
In the prequel we're going to tell about the characters before Left Behind, and the book would end with the rapture instead of start with the rapture like the first one did. — Jerry B. Jenkins
I was raised in a Christian home and, in fact, my mother led me to Christ as a youngster. — Jerry B. Jenkins
Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose. — Jerry B. Jenkins
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. — Jerry B. Jenkins
People want to find out what happens to the characters, and want to keep reading, and turning the pages. — Jerry B. Jenkins
Lady, I'm like, a kryptonite member. — Jerry B. Jenkins
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. — Jerry B. Jenkins
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. — Jerry B. Jenkins
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. — Jerry B. Jenkins
My dream remains to inform and entertain through fiction in the form of novels and movies that compete in the marketplace of ideas. — Jerry B. Jenkins
As for dialogue, I think it keeps things moving to cut to the chase. — Jerry B. Jenkins
Christianity is not a religion, it's a relationship with God through Christ. — Jerry B. Jenkins
People are scared to death and they're looking for something beyond themselves. — Jerry B. Jenkins
What a casual way to say 'The enemy of God is after you'. — Jerry B. Jenkins
There is a comfort zone of knowing where things are going and having characters in place, but the action gets more and more dramatic and is very challenging to describe. — Jerry B. Jenkins
Wherever you have people, you have factions and disagreements and personality conflicts. — 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. — Jerry B. Jenkins
Actually 'Soon' has more than the Left Behind series, but I really believe less is more. — Jerry B. Jenkins
The uninitiated have real questions and valid concerns over how the things of God appear to them. — Jerry B. Jenkins
I love inventing worlds and characters and settings and scenarios. — Jerry B. Jenkins
Good fiction must be entertaining, but what makes fiction special - and True - is that the realness of a novel allows it to carry a larger message. — Jerry B. Jenkins
Know what?" he said. "The one I'm really mad at is God. I try not to, but the truth is, when you boil it down, he let me get cancer." "Humph," I said. "I always thought that God must trust you a lot to let you go through this." Jeff flinched. "What do you mean?" "Well, he knew you believed in him. He must have known how you would react. He trusted you to go through it." Jeff frowned. "That's a thought. He's the one giving me the strength. That's funny. I'm mad at the one giving me strength." I hadn't meant to be profound. It just slipped out. — Jerry B. Jenkins
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. — Jerry B. Jenkins
Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable. — Jerry B. Jenkins
He just kind of talks them through, and then I get the fun part cause I get to make up the stories. — Jerry B. Jenkins
We at the Christian Writers Guild couldn't be more proud of Brandy Vallance. Let her debut novel transport you to an entirely fresh time and place where you'll soon forget you're turning pages and find yourself riveted to the destinies of characters who'll leave a lasting impression on your heart. — Jerry B. Jenkins
When you come to Christ as a real young person, I think when you become a teen-ager either you rebel or you search, doubt, and wonder. — Jerry B. Jenkins
Books that do a tenth of what Left Behind has done are smashing successes. — Jerry B. Jenkins
While writing my first 90 books, I was magazine editor, publisher, book publisher, executive, etc., so I was established in publishing. three of my seven or so books were biographies of sports stars and really opened doors for me in that area. — Jerry B. Jenkins
He wants people to become true Christians by following him, not just doing what he said but letting him live in our lives. — Jerry B. Jenkins
I don't see success as the goal. Obedience is the goal. — Jerry B. Jenkins
The most comforting feeling ever is knowing that someone truly likes your entire existence. I feel that way right now. Thank you. — Jerry B. Jenkins
Fiction has a unique role in conveying Truth. In fact, only fiction that is Truth with a capital T is worthwhile. — Jerry B. Jenkins
Of course, bad marriages are so pervasive that they have invaded the faith community too. — Jerry B. Jenkins
No life is messier than one in ministry — Jerry B. Jenkins
Funny, I don't feel any more powerful today than yesterday. — Jerry B. Jenkins
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. — Jerry B. Jenkins
In my opinion, Jesus is God's attempt to reach man. But while I believe Jesus is the way to God, it makes no sense to hate people who disagree. — Jerry B. Jenkins