Frank E. Peretti > Quotes

“You want proof there's a God? Look outside, watch a sunset.”
― 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, Monster

“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

“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, Monster

“Prac­tice doesn’t make per­fect. It makes bet­ter.”
― Frank Peretti, Illusion

“let's be honest: ignoring is acting, and nothing more - acting as though the words, or actions of your oppresors don't hurt. you hear the words, you feel the insults, and you bear the blows. you can act deaf and impervious to pain, but the stabs and the arrows pierce you anyway.”
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“Killing one person makes you a murderer. Killing a million people makes you a king. Killing them all makes you God.”
― Frank Peretti, House

“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

“a truth our socetiy must not lose sight of and that is the sanctity of every human life and the dignity of every indvidual”
― Frank Peretti

“Don't worry about getting perfect, just keep getting better.”
― Frank Peretti, Illusion

“A little love and attention can go a long way...too bad more people don't realize that.”
― Frank Peretti, Hangman's Curse

“Mankind without truth, without God-given morals...has strength...can think...can feel things emotionally–but if he isn't given a good, solid standard for right and wrong, then there's nothing to keep him from using strength and reason and feelings in selfish...even destructive ways...We wonder why people do such evil things, why there's so much violence in the world, why people rob and cheat and betray each other. But when we erase truth from our thinking and say there's no right or wrong except for what each person thinks is right or wrong, well, we get the world we deserve...when there's no truth that applies to everyone, then there's no way to argue for the rightness or wrongness of anything...”
― Frank Peretti, Nightmare Academy

“So what do you do for a living? 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 E. Peretti, Monster

“I understand that sometimes the truth of God’s Word can become a divider, an irritation, a stone of stumbling. But that’s only because it remains unchanged, uncompromising, and steadfast. And what better reason could there be to build our lives on such an immovable foundation? To violate the Word of God is only to destroy ourselves, our joy, our peace, our happiness.”
― Frank Peretti, This Present Darkness

“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 efficient at using what we endure to mold character. If we are malleable, He takes our bumps and bruises and shapes them into something beautiful.”
― Frank Peretti, The Wounded Spirit

“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 E. 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 E. 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, Nightmare Academy

“Sin is the monster we love to deny. It can stalk us, bite a slice out of our lives, return again and again, and even as we bleed and hobble, we prefer to believe nothing has happened. In Jesus Christ we are forgiven and empowered to overcome sin...but toying with an animal that is actually toying with us is a sure way to lose part of ourselves.”
― Frank Peretti, The Oath

“The problem is, if you really want the Truth, then you have to have God along with it.”
― Frank Peretti, Hangman's Curse

“For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. —EPHESIANS 6:12”
― Frank Peretti, This Present Darkness

“When you live in a world that likes bad guys, the bad guys don't go away.”
― Frank Peretti

“Tal was looking at Hank when he said, "Just a moment. I want to hear it one more time."
As they watched, Bernice found her way to Hank and Mary. She began to week openly, and spoke some quiet but impassioned words to them. Hank and Mary listened, as did the others nearby, and as they listened, they began to smile. They put their arms around her, they told her about Jesus, and then they began to weep as well. Finally, as the saints were gathered and Bernice was surrounded with loving arms, Hank said the words, "Let's pray...”
― Frank E. Peretti

“No amount of lies, no matter how cleverly couched, will ever outstrip or outlast God’s truth, nor will any lie ever outreach His grace. The Lord knows those who are His, His sheep hear His voice, and the arm of the Lord is never so short that He cannot save.”
― Frank E. Peretti, Piercing the Darkness

“TAL HAD TO laugh. Hardly presentable! Wasn’t it strange, the way humans looked at themselves with eyes of flesh and not of the Spirit? Certainly that dear woman had been through mire and filth of every degree; she was scarred, exhausted, ragged, and dirty. But to the angels, she appeared as God Himself saw her, just as any other redeemed saint of the living God: pure, shining, clean, dressed in garments as white as snow.”
― Frank E. Peretti, Piercing the Darkness

“Take away truth and people will lie. Scoff at virtue, and betrayal becomes a matter of course.”
― Frank Peretti, Nightmare Academy

“If this was sanity, being crazy made a lot more sense.”
― Frank Peretti, Illusion

“The goal is always the same. I want to change people's lives and bring them closer to the Lord in a new way. I want to confront them with an issue.”
― Frank Peretti

“I'm here, Satan," he said. "I can't see you, and maybe you can move faster than I can, but I'm still here, and by the grace of God and the power of the Holy Spirit I intend to be a thorn in your side until one of us has had enough!”
― Frank E. Peretti, This Present Darkness

“I like winning, it just takes longer”
― Frank Peretti, The Visitation