Jerry B. Jenkins Quotes

Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family.
Jerry B. Jenkins

Family, Broken, Seem

As for dialogue, I think it keeps things moving to cut to the chase.
Jerry B. Jenkins

Moving, Chase, Cut

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

God, Hate, Jesus

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

End, Book, Before

Writers write. Dreamers talk about it.
Jerry B. Jenkins

Dreams, Talk, Write

Actually 'Soon' has more than the Left Behind series, but I really believe less is more.
Jerry B. Jenkins

Less, Actually, Left

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

Done, Books, Left

Fiction has a unique role in conveying Truth. In fact, only fiction that is Truth with a capital T is worthwhile.
Jerry B. Jenkins

Truth, Fact, Unique

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

Funny, Today, Powerful

Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.
Jerry B. Jenkins

Great, Poetry, Book

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

Good, True, Special

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

Fun, Through, Cause

I don't see success as the goal. Obedience is the goal.
Jerry B. Jenkins

Success, Goal, Obedience

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

Religion, God, Fear

I love inventing worlds and characters and settings and scenarios.
Jerry B. Jenkins

Love, Characters, Worlds

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

Book, Writing, Put

I was raised as a Christian but the transaction has to be made by yourself - you and God - at some point.
Jerry B. Jenkins

God, Yourself, Made

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

Home, Mother, Christian

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

Good, Real, Enough

Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable.
Jerry B. Jenkins

Today, Successful, While

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

Him, Jesus, Made

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

May, Play, Makes

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

Movies, Through, Dream

Of course, bad marriages are so pervasive that they have invaded the faith community too.
Jerry B. Jenkins

Faith, Bad, Community

People are scared to death and they're looking for something beyond themselves.
Jerry B. Jenkins

Death, Themselves, Looking

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Nationality: American

Born: September 23, 1949

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