Top 59 Quotes & Sayings by Frank Peretti

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Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Frank Edward Peretti is a New York Times best-selling author of Christian fiction, whose novels primarily focus on the supernatural. As of 2012, his works have sold over 15 million copies worldwide. He has been described by the New York Times as creating the Christian thriller genre. Peretti is best known for his novels This Present Darkness (1986) and Piercing the Darkness (1989). Peretti has held ministry credentials with the Assemblies of God, and formerly played the banjo in a bluegrass band called Northern Cross. He now lives in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho with his wife, Barbara.

American - Author | Born: January 13, 1951

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Kids are not going to sit and read a slow-paced book. Neither are adults.

Frank Peretti

The Lord God carries us throughout our lives just as a father carries his child. The Lord carried me, and He still is. He made you. He knows what you're good at. He knows what you can do and what you can become. Trust Him. Love Him. He'll always love you back.

Frank Peretti

Evolution is the key to avoiding the whole issue of God. When you challenge evolution, you're basically challenging someone on a spiritual level.

Frank Peretti

Some folks run from the doubt and go backward. You try for all the spiritual Band-Aids you can find... when actually, what you need to do is press forward, to accept those doubts and work through them.

Frank Peretti

I'm given a lot of credit with opening the doors for Christian fiction. It was kind of a difficult field when I got into it... But I don't feel like a king.

Frank Peretti

When you are making a movie, there are a zillion cooks in the kitchen, and you don't always get what you want to do. The story can always go in a different direction than what you would like. You compromise, and there is dealing and bickering.

Frank Peretti

First of all, I was a good Christian kid. My mom and dad taught me never to fight. So I never fought. The other kids picked that up right away. They said, 'Oh, he's not going to try to do anything.' They'd push me, shove me, hit me. I'd just stand there and take it.

Frank Peretti

Moviemaking is just really neat, and I really like doing that. I'd like to get into it more, but in terms of my role in all of this and in terms of the gift that God has given me, I had to come to the conclusion that my strength is as a storyteller, creating the story.

Frank Peretti

I'm a very methodical writer. Before computers, I used reams of paper and stacks of index cards.

Frank Peretti

When people get their mind made up about something, then it's: 'Don't bother me with facts.' They've got their minds made up and dismiss you out of hand. Some people don't even give you a fair hearing.

Frank Peretti

When I was a kid, I really got into monsters.

Frank Peretti

There's nothing sacred about the book you've written. The Bible says there's safety in a multitude of counselors. The movie is the movie, and the book is the book. They're different critters, and each must stand on their own merits.

Frank Peretti

I don't like to write boring books.

Frank Peretti

When I first started out writing the 'Darkness' books, there was, at least in my mind, a certain sort of rulebook we had to follow.

Frank Peretti

There are writers, and there are readers who want something more. They want to get at the grist of life.

Frank Peretti

I became very timid, very retreating. I wouldn't talk to anybody. I didn't look you in the eye. I just had that kind of personality as a kid that basically puts a target on you.

Frank Peretti

I wanted to write a novel where the meaning is in the story and characters and the subliminal, in the shades and nuances. It's exciting to develop that as a writer.

Frank Peretti

The logical outcome of evolution is that it makes monsters. We turn into monsters because evolution takes away everything that makes us human in the sense of our moral accountability, our moral absolutes, and our idea of being distinct from the animal kingdom.

Frank Peretti

I always want to be on the cutting edge.

Frank Peretti

When you are writing for the Christian culture, there is a whole gamut of expectations.

Frank Peretti

At the bottom of a Peretti novel is the biblical view of things, the Christian message. Whether you're a Christian or not, you're still going to have to deal with good versus evil.

Frank Peretti

I hear a lot of, 'I'm a writer because of you.' It's not a bad feeling, but it sneaks up on you. You don't ask for it.

Frank Peretti

Just like all my novels, 'Illusion' is a good way to observe where Frank Peretti was in his life when he wrote it.

Frank Peretti

'Illusion' is a story of God's love and our hunger to find him when we're separated from him. If I can paint a picture of two people still in love after 40 years, that's a pretty good message.

Frank Peretti

We have a God who loves us. We are in the palm of his hand. He doesn't leave us, and He doesn't forsake us.

Frank Peretti

I try to write cinematically. Let me define what I mean by that. First of all, I try to write in a visual way so that the reader can watch a movie in their head. And it keeps moving. I try to structure the stories like a screenplay may be structured.

Frank Peretti

The Gospel can stand up to scrutiny.

Frank Peretti

I don't know what idea is going to hit me when.

Frank Peretti

Generally, my notes and outlines comprise more words than my novels. I suppose that's one reason I'm a comparatively slow writer, something that has always bothered me given the fact that other authors can turn out a book every six months while I usually take about two years.

Frank Peretti

I don't watch television.

Frank Peretti

It's man's nature to abuse knowledge and power, be it in the realm of science, government, or Wall Street. Take God out of the picture, and you have real trouble.

Frank Peretti

I'm trying to move a little more toward literary fiction while still retaining a popular feel.

Frank Peretti

I'd like to write a series that, in an adventurous and fun way, teaches kids a way to discern between good and evil, to establish a foundation on moral absolutes.

Frank Peretti

A good book or movie or screenplay should be emotionally satisfying. When they're done, you want people to breathe a deep sigh and say, 'Wow.'

Frank Peretti

If you're going to read a Peretti book, you're going to get a message. But the book is a pretty good read.

Frank Peretti

There's a reason evolution is a hot-button issue. It's not just a matter of science, either. It's a matter of the big questions in life - why are we here, what is truth, where is our moral basis?

Frank Peretti

The people that usually have the most trouble with my books are the ones that pick them apart from a theological point of view.

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I like doing thrillers.

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My earlier books, 'The Oath,' 'This Present Darkness' were pretty straight adventure. 'The Visitation' is like a deeper book, more thought-provoking. It probes at character more.

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My main goal is still for the books to minister in some way, to teach a spiritual truth, to enlighten people.

Frank Peretti

I'm just a slow writer. I'm picky and careful and fastidious.

Frank Peretti

I just feel the need as a writer to try something kind of deep and fulfilling.

Frank Peretti

Don't worry about getting perfect, just keep getting better.

Frank Peretti

These humans are only of flesh, of mud, and I suggest there is one force stronger than their zeal for God: their own self-righteousness! We will make them proud, pure in their own eyes, vindictive, unjust judges over each other, and stir up such a noise among them that the simplest prayer will not be uttered!

Frank Peretti

Practice doesn’t make perfect. It makes better.

Frank Peretti

If Truth is taken away from us, then Right and Wrong are taken from us as well. If we don't know Right and Wrong, then we can't, we won't control ourselves, but will look to someone else to bring order through brute force and raw power. We will be controlled by a tyrant, and we will no longer be free.

Frank Peretti

Spirit, who are you?' Andy demanded. Bobby remained silent, his entire body strained, his lips tightly together, his eyes bulging out. He was taking frantic, short breaths through his nose. His face was crimson. Spirit,' said Andy, 'I command you to tell us who you are in Jesus' name!' Don't you mention that name!' the spirit hissed and then cursed. I will mention that name again and again,' said Hank. You know that name has defeated you.

Frank Peretti

Killing one person makes you a murderer. Killing a million people makes you a king. Killing them all makes you God.

Frank Peretti

Staying alive is nice, but you can’t do that forever. It’s how you live the life you have while you have it.

Frank Peretti

Comfort can be a dangerous thing. You stick around home all the time where it’s safe and nothing ever changes, and before you know it, you get set in your ways and you quit learning, you quit changing, you don’t grow anymore.

Frank Peretti

Let's be honest: Ignoring is acting, and nothing more — acting as though the words or actions of your oppressors don't hurt. You hear the words, you feel the insults, and you bear the blows.

Frank Peretti

The problem is, if you really want the Truth, then you have to have God along with it.

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the depth of a person's character is not measured by his or her physical strength, but by the depth of his or her nobility.

Frank Peretti

Sin is the Monster we love to deny. It is crouching at the door and it wants you, but you must overcome it.

Frank Peretti

God does not waste an ounce of our pain or a drop of our tears; suffering doesn't come our way for no reason, and He seems especially efficient at using what we endure to mold our character. If we are malleable, He takes our bumps and bruises and shapes them into something beautiful.

Frank Peretti

A little love and attention can go a long way...too bad more people don't realize that.

Frank Peretti

You want proof there's a God? Look outside, watch a sunset.

Frank Peretti

There is a vital lesson to be learned here, a Truth our society must not lose sight of, and that is the sanctity of every human life and the dignity of every individual.

Frank Peretti

The claws of Truth were painful. The lies tore away like scabs, and John bled there for hours, stifling his cries of pain in the sleeve of his overcoat - the overcoat he'd received from his father.

Frank Peretti

Top 59 Quotes & Sayings by Frank Peretti

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