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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Writers write. Dreamers talk about it.

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.

Too many are sorry where they should be assertive, and nearly moved to aggressive radical action, where they should be apologizing to themselves first, and then the world at large.

I am constantly torn between the will to be seen and still hidden so god damn well, a contradiction I never figured out.

You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

The most important thing you have in life is your God's given destiny. With that being said, dare not to ever permit people or things to take it away from you.

Financial success is only partial success.

It is not alone what we do but also what we do not do for which we are accountable.

We ought to muse upon the things of God, because we thus get the real nutriment out of them.

No one can tell you what your life is goin to be, can they? No. It's never like what you expected. Quijada nodded. If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them?

Ultimately the love can become so big that we can love the whole of creation instead of 'I love this but I don't like that.'

Things are never perfect, so I never get too high about things, or get too down about things anymore.