Tim LaHaye Quotes (40 Quotes)

One of the things that I've never run into is anyone complaining about Jerry's ability to flesh out characters, as you indicated.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

The unsaved people will be cast into utter darkness forever.

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

That's why I was so grateful that we were able to delineate it and to make it clear to people that the whole world is coming against Christ.

I think it's Jerry's masterful fiction writing.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Jerry does an incredible job of pulling the events, working up, up, up toward a climax. That climax is when Christ comes to do battle with Satan.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Jerry and I really made it a matter of prayer that he could be gifted to and inspired by the Holy Spirit to write what I call a believable conversion.

We've fallen in love with the characters and the people and we're dreaming about what's going to happen to them. It's really a fun experience.

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