Top 35 Jerry B. Jenkins Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Christianity is not a religion, it’s a relationship with God through Christ.”

— Jerry B. Jenkins

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2. “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

3. “Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family.”

— Jerry B. Jenkins

4. “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 a character or a place looks like.”

— Jerry B. Jenkins

5. “You can’t understand where someone’s going unless you understand where they’ve been.”

— Jerry B. Jenkins

6. “I don’t see success as the goal. Obedience is the goal.”

— Jerry B. Jenkins

7. “Writers write. Dreamers talk about it.”

— Jerry B. Jenkins

8. “As it has always been, so shall it ever be. The King is on his throne and is in control.”

— Jerry B. Jenkins

9. “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

10. “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

11. “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

12. “Ironically, in today’s marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable.”

— Jerry B. Jenkins

13. “Actually ‘Soon’ has more than the Left Behind series, but I really believe less is more.”

— Jerry B. Jenkins

14. “Wherever you have people, you have factions and disagreements and personality conflicts.”

— Jerry B. Jenkins

15. “Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.”

— Jerry B. Jenkins

16. “We at the Christian Writers Guild couldn’t be more proud of Brandy Vallance. Let her debut novel transport you to an entirely fresh time and place where you’ll soon forget you’re turning pages and find yourself riveted to the destinies of characters who’ll leave a lasting impression on your heart.”

— Jerry B. Jenkins

17. “I was raised in a Christian home and, in fact, my mother led me to Christ as a youngster.”

— Jerry B. Jenkins

18. “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

19. “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

20. “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

21. “Books that do a tenth of what Left Behind has done are smashing successes.”

— Jerry B. Jenkins

22. “The uninitiated have real questions and valid concerns over how the things of God appear to them.”

— Jerry B. Jenkins

23. “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

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

— Jerry B. Jenkins

25. “The most comforting feeling ever is knowing that someone truly likes your entire existence. I feel that way right now. Thank you.”

— Jerry B. Jenkins

26. “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

27. “Fiction has a unique role in conveying Truth. In fact, only fiction that is Truth with a capital T is worthwhile.”

— Jerry B. Jenkins

28. “The man gave Westin two.”

— Jerry B. Jenkins

29. “When I rise in the morning and go to sleep at night, I will think of you, O King. For you are great and powerful and majestic and full of splendor. The entire kingdom is yours. Truly you are lifted high above everything.”

— Jerry B. Jenkins

30. “No life is messier than one in ministry.”

— Jerry B. Jenkins

31. “While writing my first 90 books, I was magazine editor, publisher, book publisher, executive, etc., so I was established in publishing. three of my seven or so books were biographies of sports stars and really opened doors for me in that area.”

— Jerry B. Jenkins

32. “As for dialogue, I think it keeps things moving to cut to the chase.”

— Jerry B. Jenkins

33. “I love inventing worlds and characters and settings and scenarios.”

— Jerry B. Jenkins

34. “I call writing a sacred profession because I believe God chose the written word to communicate with man.”

— Jerry B. Jenkins

35. “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

36. “Of course, bad marriages are so pervasive that they have invaded the faith community too.”

— Jerry B. Jenkins

37. “A life of following God is not easy, but when we give our lives to him, he gives us the power to live and the promise of eternal life. What.”

— Jerry B. Jenkins