Frank 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

“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.”
― Frank Peretti

“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

“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 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

“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

“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

“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 Peretti, Monster

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

“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 Peretti