Top 76 Quotes & Sayings by Tim LaHaye

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American priest Tim LaHaye.
Last updated on December 23, 2024.
Tim LaHaye

Tim Francis LaHaye was an American Baptist evangelical Christian minister who wrote more than 85 books, both fiction and non-fiction, including the Left Behind series of apocalyptic fiction, which he co-authored with Jerry B. Jenkins. He was a founder of the Council for National Policy, a right-wing conservative Christian advocacy group. LaHaye was a vociferous anti-homosexual, a harsh critic of Roman Catholicism, and a strong believer of the Illuminati global conspiracy theory.

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.
I'm currently working on a Mind Siege for youth.
I think God has chosen to use this as a tool. — © Tim LaHaye
I think God has chosen to use this as a tool.
All people, even secular people, are seeing books on the market like The End of History.
There were times I didn't think we would ever make it, even when we were cranking two out a year.
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.
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.
When you allegorize, you're gonna get everybody saved somehow.
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.
But then one day the Lord put us together through our agent and it's been a wonderful match.
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.
Yes, in fact, it's hard to believe this, but it was almost 18 years ago when I first got the idea.
About 40 years ago I had an experience where I wrote a tract. — © Tim LaHaye
About 40 years ago I had an experience where I wrote a tract.
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.
It's the lie of evolution that all man are just evolved and that they're all equal, and that all creatures are equal.
I came to the conclusion that I am not a fiction writer.
Yes, I think that when the Bible refers to a horse or a horseman, that's exactly what it means.
If you could see the instructions that I gave Jerry to begin with, I'd be embarrassed.
You have to take Bible prophecy literally, just like everything else in the Bible.
When I gave my life to the Lord, I thought I'd be a preacher.
Yeah, I have been because, generally speaking, to we Biblical literalists, the media is very hostile.
I've written many nonfiction books, but that's a special gift.
There are the saints who were raptured at the beginning of the tribulation period - those are the Christians.
The book of Revelation says that we no longer need the sun or the moon, for Christ is the light of the world.
And part of my vision is to do dynamic videos for kids.
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.
I think it's Jerry's masterful fiction writing.
The unsaved people will be cast into utter darkness forever.
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.
People recognize something's going to happen, and they'd better get ready.
The curse of Adam and Eve that fell upon the earth because of their sin will be lifted when Christ returns.
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.
After I'd preached a message on Sunday night, I'd print it up.
Jerry and I hoped that it would be a popular bestseller.
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!
we cant wait for someone else to do it, we have to take matters into our own hands or it will never be done.
Every person in every generation has a choice: to obey God or to do his own thing.
Christianity is the only faith whose founder died for His followers in order to enable them to escape the consequences of their sins. — © Tim LaHaye
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.
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.
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.
In short, selfishness is the opposite of love.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A major contributor to the present-day tendency to accept and encourage homosexuality is Dr. Sigmund Freud. — © Tim LaHaye
A major contributor to the present-day tendency to accept and encourage homosexuality is Dr. Sigmund Freud.
Nobody is just anything... everyone is of equal value, regardless of their station
Revenge is the most worthless weapon in the world.
The farther we go from God, the less we know of peace.
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.
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.
There is something therapeutic about doing for others that lifts a person out of the rut of self-thought.
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.
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.
Fear is an inhibitor that has kept more people from fulfilling their destiny than any other one emotion.
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.
The Evidence Bible is a handy tool for anyone interested in proving the reliability of Scripture, the deity of Jesus Christ, and the incredible offer of our eternal salvation. It makes the defense of Scripture easily understood and should be read by all serious Bible students.
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