You can't understand where someone's going unless you understand where they've been.

- Jerry B. Jenkins

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

- 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

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

- 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

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

- 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 biblic…

- Jerry B. Jenkins

The theater of the mind is impossible to compete with, and I like the idea that with a few suggestions, each reader forms in his or her own mind what…

- Jerry B. Jenkins

Writers write. Dreamers talk about it.

- Jerry B. Jenkins