Tim LaHaye Quotations

The unsaved people will be cast into utter darkness forever.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Again, Rayford slid to the ground, raising his arms. "My Lord and my God, I am so unworthy." "And you, Rayford, who once were alienated and an enemy in your mind by wicked works, yet now I have reconciled the body of My flesh through death to present you holy, and blameless, and above reproach in God's sight." "Unworthy! Unworthy!" Rayford cried. "Justified by faith," Jesus said, "Justified.

we cant wait for someone else to do it, we have to take matters into our own hands or it will never be done.

There is something therapeutic about doing for others that lifts a person out of the rut of self-thought.

Inside was where she lived, physically and mentally. She resided in the horn of plenty of her own prodigious mind, fertilized by inexhaustible curiosity.

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

We're in a religious war and we need to aggressively oppose secular humanism; these people are as religiously motivated as we are and they are filled with the devil.

Every person in every generation has a choice: to obey God or to do his own thing.

Future events cast their shadow before them.

Why not admit that the words separation and church do not even appear in the US Constitution, he added. Instead, they do appear in Article 52 of the Constitution of the Soviet Union.

Liberal humanists now seem to dominate the fields of art, journalism, and communication, which are powerful and uniquely able to spread anti-Christian thought.

Rock musicians are consistent in their disdain and irreverent treatment of Jesus Christ.

Most media leaders are liberal and much of their programming reflects anti-Christian sentiment.

When our atheistically dominated Supreme Court removed the Ten Commandments from our halls, not a whimper was heard from the 95 million Christians in this country, who still don't realize that their religious freedoms are being systematically removed without a fight.

The elite attack religious people and clergy with a vengeance.

The removal of religion as history from our schoolbooks betrays the intellectual dishonesty of secular humanist educators and reveals their blind hostility to Christianity.

It is interesting to me that the secularizers bend over backward in our federally controlled schools to keep atheists from being offended by the mention of God, prayer, or morality, yet over the federally controlled airwaves Christians can be offended every day of the week by the broadcasting of blasphemy against God and the Lord Jesus Christ or attacks on our moral values.

[The Freedom Writer] is full of disinformation ... typical of left-wing journals like yours, you print anything you can find that is derogatory to those with whom you disagree - without checking the facts.

The man who seeks revenge is like the man who shoots himself in order to hit his enemy with the kick of the gun's recoil.

A major contributor to the present-day tendency to accept and encourage homosexuality is Dr. Sigmund Freud.

Revenge is the most worthless weapon in the world.

The mainline media attacks all conservatives, especially Christians, and distorts their policies and beliefs so that the local population is afraid to vote for them.

As important as the father is in the life of a child, even he must take second place to mother during the first three years of life.... Consequently, mothers actually have more to do with producing a predisposition toward homosexuality than fathers. Two kinds of mothers are particularly harmful - smother mothers and dominating mothers.

I always tell my critics that if they don't like this theory for helping people - come up with a better one and I'll use it.

Bible prophecy helps us to better understand the future and realize the urgent need to spread the Gospel. It motivates us to personal purity and gives us hope in a hopeless age.

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.

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

The farther we go from God, the less we know of peace.

We both know that, my friend, but a man's perception soon becomes his reality.

Since the writing of our Constitution, our religious liberties have been systematically threatened and whittled away by Supreme Court justices who interpret the First Amendment as a prohibition against religious activity on public property.

The movie industry would never purposely offend homosexuals, native Americans, environmentalists, animal rights activists, or women's groups, but they don't think twice about something that might offend Christians.

In other words, homosexuality was no longer to be considered an illegal form of debauchery or perversion in which one willingly engaged a person of his own sex, but a mental illness which one blamed on his mother. Consequently, a homosexual is not responsible for his behavior - it's his mother's fault!

Fear is an inhibitor that has kept more people from fulfilling their destiny than any other one emotion.

Sure, he was lonely. Sure, they had a lot in common. Sure, he was attracted to her, and it was clear she felt the same about him.

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

In short, selfishness is the opposite of love.

Most of all, I believe God has chosen to bless this series. In doing so, he's giving the country and maybe the world, one last, big wake-up call before the events transpire.

Perhaps the worst example of Smithsonian contempt for Jesus Christ is seen in its 1994 publication of a coffee-table book entitled Smithsonian Time Lines of the Ancient World ... This flagrant display of religious bigotry and discrimination in a book officially sponsored by the Smithsonian is intellectually and academically dishonest.

All I know is that the closer I get to God, the deeper I get into the Bible, and the heavier the burden seems on my shoulders.

Whenever a nation turns its back on God or beings to live as if He does not exist, it begins to show up in its citizens' disregard for human life.

Christianity is the only faith whose founder died for His followers in order to enable them to escape the consequences of their sins.

The devil, as a master of deceit, does everything he can to keep people from believing in the existence of a hell; but hell is a literal state of existence that will be the plight of all those who reject the Lord Jesus Christ.

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

If you are worrying about tomorrow, you can't possibly enjoy today. Think about it: you can't really give God tomorrow; you can give him only what you have, and today is all you have.

Nobody is just anything... everyone is of equal value, regardless of their station

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.

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