Top 30 Jerry B. Jenkins Quotes

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Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak t

Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family.
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
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
Writers write. Dreamers talk about it.
Jerry B. Jenkins
The uninitiated have real questions and valid concerns over how the things of God appear to them.
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
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
Ironically, in today’s marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable.
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
The Christian market has less competition and lower standards.
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
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
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
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
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
Of course, bad marriages are so pervasive that they have invaded the faith community too.
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
Fiction has a unique role in conveying Truth. In fact, only fiction that is Truth with a capital T is worthwhile.
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
I don’t see success as the goal. Obedience is the goal.
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
Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.
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
Books that do a tenth of what Left Behind has done are smashing successes.
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
Funny, I don’t feel any more powerful today than yesterday.
Jerry B. Jenkins
I love inventing worlds and characters and settings and scenarios.
Jerry B. Jenkins
Actually ‘Soon’ has more than the Left Behind series, but I really believe less is more.
Jerry B. Jenkins
As for dialogue, I think it keeps things moving to cut to the chase.
Jerry B. Jenkins
People are scared to death and they’re looking for something beyond themselves.
Jerry B. Jenkins