Inspirational Quotes by Tim LaHaye
“Hope deals with the future; now and the past are but servants that wait on her with impulse and suggestive circumstance.”
“There is no law by which to determine the superiority of nations; hence the vanity of the claim, and the idleness of disputes about it.”
“As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly.”
“Father of all--God!--what we have here is of thee; take our thanks and bless us, that we may continue to do thy will.”
“although the church has been the most consistently hated group on earth, it will continue to expand until He takes it out of this world.”
“Here is what our Lord says about that apostate church: I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth. You say, “I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.” But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked. I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, so you can become rich; and white clothes to wear, so you can cover your shameful nakedness; and salve to put on your eyes, so you can see. (Revelation 3:15-18, niv)”
“Of that day and hour no one knows, no, not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only.” (Matthew 24:36)”
“What is the gospel? It is not a message about how to get saved. The gospel is the announcement of a new kingdom, a new way of life, and a new way of peace that carried good news to all people of every religion.”
“When people mistakenly believe a lie, we have a responsibility—even a commission (Matthew 28:18-20)—to gently and lovingly point them to God’s truth. What is truth? It is that God alone is the one means of forgiveness of sin. He alone is the one way to eternal life. “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me” (John 14:6).”
“It is a well-known fact among prophecy scholars that there were more than one thousand prophecies contained within the Bible at the time that it was written, and over five hundred of these have been fulfilled. The remainder are end-time prophecies whose time has not yet come.”
“When the plain sense of Scripture makes common sense, seek no other sense, but take every word at its primary, literal meaning unless the facts of the immediate context clearly indicate otherwise. —David L. Cooper, PhD”
“God woos us through His Word and His Spirit to walk by faith; Satan woos us through government, commerce, and religious idolatry to walk by sight.”
“swallow your pride, examine yourself, and humble yourself before God.”
“He believed he was in love with her, if he knew what love was.”
― Tim LaHaye ,
from Tribulation Force
“The first twenty-one months encompass what the Bible calls the seven Seal Judgments, or the Judgments of the Seven-Sealed Scroll. Then comes another twenty-one-month period in which we will see the seven Trumpet Judgments. In the last forty-two months of this seven years of tribulation, if we have survived, we will endure the most severe tests, the seven Vial Judgments. That last half of the seven years is called the Great Tribulation, and if we are alive at the end of it, we will be rewarded by seeing the Glorious Appearing of Christ.”
― Tim LaHaye ,
from Left Behind
“But we are to receive his gift, abide in Christ, and allow him to live through us.”
― Tim LaHaye ,
from Left Behind
“You’ve seen the news, about the United Nations negotiations with the Bensky administration?”
― Tim LaHaye ,
from Brink of Chaos
“There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for Jesus’ sake, and the gospel’s, but he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.” God”
― Tim LaHaye ,
from Apollyon
“Christ moved within the Old Testament prophets and they ‘predicted the sufferings of the Messiah and the glories that would follow.”
― Tim LaHaye ,
from Brink of Chaos
Group of Brands
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Timothy F. LaHaye is an American evangelical Christian minister, author, and speaker. He is best-known for the Left Behind series of apocalyptic fiction, which he co-wrote with Jerry B. Jenkins. He has written over 50 books, both fiction and non-fiction.
LaHaye received a B.A. from Bob Jones University in 1950. He also holds a Doctor of Ministry degree from Western Seminary. In 1958, the LaHaye family moved to San Diego, California, where he became pastor of the Scott Memorial Baptist Church (since renamed Shadow Mountain Community Church) in El Cajon, serving there for almost 25 years. In 1971 he founded Christian Heritage College, which is now known as San Diego Christian College.
LaHaye is best-known for the Left Behind series of apocalyptic fiction that depict the Earth after the pretribulation rapture which LaHaye believes will occur. The books were LaHaye's brainchild, though Jerry B. Jenkins, a former sportswriter with numerous other works of fiction to his name, did the actual writing of the books from LaHaye's notes. LaHaye has said, "I write the best I can. I know I'm never going to be revered as some classic writer. I don't claim to be C. S. Lewis. The literary-type writers, I admire them. I wish I was smart enough to write a book that's hard to read, you know?"
Time magazine named LaHaye one of the 25 most influential evangelicals in America and in the summer of 2001 the Evangelical Studies Bulletin named him the most influential Christian leader of the preceding quarter century.