Tim LaHaye Quotes & Sayings

New fiction writers are a special breed in my estimation, and I never dreamed that so many people would be interested, but I remember being led by God. — Tim LaHaye

The removal of religion as history from our schoolbooks betrays the intellectual dishonesty of secular humanist educators and reveals their blind hostility to Christianity. — Tim LaHaye

He imagined them sitting somewhere, just enjoying each other's company, her head on his chest, his arm around her. And he realized how desperately lonely he had become. — Tim LaHaye

But when you take the Bible literally, for what it says, you have to come back to the fact that there is only one way of salvation; there's only one Savior. — Tim LaHaye

For generations people have called natural disasters "acts of God." This has been a misnomer. Eons ago, God the Father conceded control of Earth's weather to Satan himself, the prince and power of the air. God allowed destruction and death by natural phenomena, yes, because of the fall of man. And no doubt God at times intervened against such actions by the evil one because of the fervent prayers of his people. — Tim LaHaye

He believed he was in love with her, if he knew what love was. — Tim LaHaye

Christianity is the only faith whose founder died for His followers in order to enable them to escape the consequences of their sins. — Tim LaHaye

Why not admit that the words separation and church do not even appear in the US Constitution, he added. Instead, they do appear in Article 52 of the Constitution of the Soviet Union. — Tim LaHaye

The man who seeks revenge is like the man who shoots himself in order to hit his enemy with the kick of the gun's recoil. — Tim LaHaye

One of the comments that we've heard that has really blessed us is people have been driven back to the book of Revelation to prove us wrong only to find that what we said was there. — Tim LaHaye

Every person in every generation has a choice: to obey God or to do his own thing. — Tim LaHaye

Since the writing of our Constitution, our religious liberties have been systematically threatened and whittled away by Supreme Court justices who interpret the First Amendment as a prohibition against religious activity on public property. — Tim LaHaye

Inside was where she lived, physically and mentally. She resided in the horn of plenty of her own prodigious mind, fertilized by inexhaustible curiosity. — Tim LaHaye

We believe Prime Minister Sol Bensky already knows we want to talk. — Tim LaHaye

The farther we go from God, the less we know of peace. — Tim LaHaye

It's the lie of evolution that all man are just evolved and that they're all equal, and that all creatures are equal. — Tim LaHaye

In short, selfishness is the opposite of love. — Tim LaHaye

People recognize something's going to happen, and they'd better get ready. — Tim LaHaye

Dear God, I admit that I'm a sinner. I am sorry for my sins. Please forgive me and save me. I ask this in the name of Jesus, who died for me. I trust in him right now. I believe that the sinless blood of Jesus is sufficient to pay the price for my salvation. Thank you for hearing me and receiving me. Thank you for saving my soul. — Tim LaHaye

You have to take Bible prophecy literally, just like everything else in the Bible. — Tim LaHaye

Again, Rayford slid to the ground, raising his arms. "My Lord and my God, I am so unworthy." "And you, Rayford, who once were alienated and an enemy in your mind by wicked works, yet now I have reconciled the body of My flesh through death to present you holy, and blameless, and above reproach in God's sight." "Unworthy! Unworthy!" Rayford cried. "Justified by faith," Jesus said, "Justified. — Tim LaHaye

The mainline media attacks all conservatives, especially Christians, and distorts their policies and beliefs so that the local population is afraid to vote for them. — Tim LaHaye

But the Jews will also be believers, so you can say that all the saints, both gentiles and Jews, will go into the millennial kingdom and populate the earth. — Tim LaHaye

There is something therapeutic about doing for others that lifts a person out of the rut of self-thought. — Tim LaHaye

Jerry and I hoped that it would be a popular bestseller. — Tim LaHaye

And then I met Jerry and he's such a creative fiction writer, and I don't know if there's ever been a team put together the way we are - where one person does the theological way out and suggestions, and the other person goes into the cave and does the fiction writing. — Tim LaHaye

There were times I didn't think we would ever make it, even when we were cranking two out a year. — Tim LaHaye

God's people need to study the prophetic Scriptures so they can both be prepared themselves and help others prepare for His coming. — Tim LaHaye

Fear is an inhibitor that has kept more people from fulfilling their destiny than any other one emotion. — Tim LaHaye

This joy was a deep abiding peace, an assurance that God was sovereign. They didn't have to like what was happening. They merely had to trust that God knew what he was doing. — Tim LaHaye

There are the saints who were raptured at the beginning of the tribulation period - those are the Christians. — Tim LaHaye

But then one day the Lord put us together through our agent and it's been a wonderful match. — Tim LaHaye

The devil, as a master of deceit, does everything he can to keep people from believing in the existence of a hell; but hell is a literal state of existence that will be the plight of all those who reject the Lord Jesus Christ. — Tim LaHaye

In other words, homosexuality was no longer to be considered an illegal form of debauchery or perversion in which one willingly engaged a person of his own sex, but a mental illness which one blamed on his mother. Consequently, a homosexual is not responsible for his behavior - it's his mother's fault! — Tim LaHaye

Most media leaders are liberal and much of their programming reflects anti-Christian sentiment. — Tim LaHaye

[The Freedom Writer] is full of disinformation ... typical of left-wing journals like yours, you print anything you can find that is derogatory to those with whom you disagree - without checking the facts. — Tim LaHaye

I think God has chosen to use this as a tool. — Tim LaHaye

Whenever a nation turns its back on God or beings to live as if He does not exist, it begins to show up in its citizens' disregard for human life. — Tim LaHaye

And part of my vision is to do dynamic videos for kids. — Tim LaHaye

All people, even secular people, are seeing books on the market like The End of History. — Tim LaHaye

I came to the conclusion that I am not a fiction writer. — Tim LaHaye

If you are worrying about tomorrow, you can't possibly enjoy today. Think about it: you can't really give God tomorrow; you can give him only what you have, and today is all you have. — Tim LaHaye

I need to get you out of here," Buck said. "And I have no idea how." "Have you prayed?" "Constantly." "The Lord will make a way somehow." "It seems impossible right now, sir." "Yahweh is the God of the impossible," Tsion said. — Tim LaHaye

As important as the father is in the life of a child, even he must take second place to mother during the first three years of life ... Consequently, mothers actually have more to do with producing a predisposition toward homosexuality than fathers. Two kinds of mothers are particularly harmful - smother mothers and dominating mothers. — Tim LaHaye

Perhaps the worst example of Smithsonian contempt for Jesus Christ is seen in its 1994 publication of a coffee-table book entitled Smithsonian Time Lines of the Ancient World ... This flagrant display of religious bigotry and discrimination in a book officially sponsored by the Smithsonian is intellectually and academically dishonest. — Tim LaHaye

If Jesus is the Son of God in human flesh, He's one of a kind of the 13 billions of people who have ever lived. — Tim LaHaye

The elite attack religious people and clergy with a vengeance. — Tim LaHaye

The curse of Adam and Eve that fell upon the earth because of their sin will be lifted when Christ returns. — Tim LaHaye

What Jerry has done, in a masterful way, is go through and select portions of the Scripture and put words in Jesus' mouth that are legitimate because they already appear in the Bible. — Tim LaHaye

I'm currently working on a Mind Siege for youth. — Tim LaHaye

We cant wait for someone else to do it, we have to take matters into our own hands or it will never be done. — Tim LaHaye

The movie industry would never purposely offend homosexuals, native Americans, environmentalists, animal rights activists, or women's groups, but they don't think twice about something that might offend Christians. — Tim LaHaye

Unbelief, which causes fear, always limits God's use of a life. — Tim LaHaye

The unsaved people will be cast into utter darkness forever. — Tim LaHaye

A major contributor to the present-day tendency to accept and encourage homosexuality is Dr. Sigmund Freud. — Tim LaHaye

Ezekiel 33:11: 'I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live. — Tim LaHaye

I've written many nonfiction books, but that's a special gift. — Tim LaHaye

He stretched out on the bed and was suddenly struck by how utterly lonely he was. — Tim LaHaye

Revenge is the most worthless weapon in the world. — Tim LaHaye

When I gave my life to the Lord, I thought I'd be a preacher. — Tim LaHaye

We both know that, my friend, but a man's perception soon becomes his reality. — Tim LaHaye

You have to admit, when people disappear, some rules go out the window. — Tim LaHaye

My life's an open book. Some of the pages are a little ripped, but it's open. — Tim LaHaye

Yeah, I have been because, generally speaking, to we Biblical literalists, the media is very hostile. — Tim LaHaye

When people mistakenly believe a lie, we have a responsibility - even a commission (Matthew 28:18-20) - to gently and lovingly point them to God's truth. What is truth? It is that God alone is the one means of forgiveness of sin. He alone is the one way to eternal life. "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me" (John 14:6). — Tim LaHaye

We're in a religious war and we need to aggressively oppose secular humanism; these people are as religiously motivated as we are and they are filled with the devil. — Tim LaHaye

It is interesting to me that the secularizers bend over backward in our federally controlled schools to keep atheists from being offended by the mention of God, prayer, or morality, yet over the federally controlled airwaves Christians can be offended every day of the week by the broadcasting of blasphemy against God and the Lord Jesus Christ or attacks on our moral values. — Tim LaHaye

Rock musicians are consistent in their disdain and irreverent treatment of Jesus Christ. — Tim LaHaye

Liberal humanists now seem to dominate the fields of art, journalism, and communication, which are powerful and uniquely able to spread anti-Christian thought. — Tim LaHaye

If you could see the instructions that I gave Jerry to begin with, I'd be embarrassed. — Tim LaHaye

To suggest that the merciful, longsuffering, gracious and loving God of the Bible would invent a dreadful doctrine like Calvinism, which would have us believe it is an act of 'grace' to select only certain people for heaven and, by exclusion, others for hell, comes perilously close to blasphemy. — Tim LaHaye

Nobody is just anything ... everyone is of equal value, regardless of their station — Tim LaHaye

The Evidence Bible is a handy tool for anyone interested in proving the reliability of Scripture, the deity of Jesus Christ, and the incredible offer of our eternal salvation. It makes the defense of Scripture easily understood and should be read by all serious Bible students. — Tim LaHaye

The Bible says that the Cross offends. If you are offended, I am doing my job. If you are attracted to Christ, the Spirit is doing his work. - Bruce Barnes — Tim LaHaye

Future events cast their shadow before them. — Tim LaHaye

About 40 years ago I had an experience where I wrote a tract. — Tim LaHaye

The book of Revelation says that we no longer need the sun or the moon, for Christ is the light of the world. — Tim LaHaye

First, God doesn't count time the way we do. With the Lord, a thousand years is like one day. But more important is the reason God is waiting until the last minute to command His Son's second coming to earth. Peter says this: 'The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish, but for all to come to repentance. — Tim LaHaye

credited with one of the most poignant summaries of commitment to Christ ever penned: "He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep [this temporal life] to gain what he cannot lose [eternal life with Christ]. — Tim LaHaye

It is a well-known fact among prophecy scholars that there were more than one thousand prophecies contained within the Bible at the time that it was written, and over five hundred of these have been fulfilled. The remainder are end-time prophecies whose time has not yet come. — Tim LaHaye

When our atheistically dominated Supreme Court removed the Ten Commandments from our halls, not a whimper was heard from the 95 million Christians in this country, who still don't realize that their religious freedoms are being systematically removed without a fight. — Tim LaHaye

I always tell my critics that if they don't like this theory for helping people - come up with a better one and I'll use it. — Tim LaHaye

Bible prophecy helps us to better understand the future and realize the urgent need to spread the Gospel. It motivates us to personal purity and gives us hope in a hopeless age. — Tim LaHaye

Sure, he was lonely. Sure, they had a lot in common. Sure, he was attracted to her, and it was clear she felt the same about him. — Tim LaHaye

The tribulation period is seven years, and when the signing of the covenant occurs, people who know the Bible and take it literally will know that, seven years later, Christ is going to come in His power and glory. — Tim LaHaye

All I know is that the closer I get to God, the deeper I get into the Bible, and the heavier the burden seems on my shoulders. — Tim LaHaye

When you allegorize, you're gonna get everybody saved somehow. — Tim LaHaye

Dear God, I know I am a sinner. Forgive me and pardon me for waiting so long. I receive your love and salvation and ask you to live your life through me. I accept you as my Savior and resolve to live for you until you come again. — Tim LaHaye

Yes, in fact, it's hard to believe this, but it was almost 18 years ago when I first got the idea. — Tim LaHaye

Most of all, I believe God has chosen to bless this series. In doing so, he's giving the country and maybe the world, one last, big wake-up call before the events transpire. — Tim LaHaye

After I'd preached a message on Sunday night, I'd print it up. — Tim LaHaye

good-byes to Hattie, and she was cordial enough, — Tim LaHaye

Yes, I think that when the Bible refers to a horse or a horseman, that's exactly what it means. — Tim LaHaye

It's going to be used in the last days to get people to come against Christ, and that's the issue: they come against the Lord Jesus Christ. And in this new book, we show Christ coming to settle that big issue. — Tim LaHaye