Quotes from 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
Fiction has a unique role in conveying Truth. In fact, only fiction that is Truth with a capital T is worthwhile.
- 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
I was raised in a Christian home and, in fact, my mother led me to Christ as a youngster.
- 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
Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable.
- 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
As for dialogue, I think it keeps things moving to cut to the chase.
- 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
The Christian market has less competition and lower standards.
- 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
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