Get books into your houses, when you have not the spring near you, then get water into your cisterns; so when you have not that wholesome preaching that you desire, good books are cisterns that hold the water of life in them to refresh you. … So when you find a chillness upon your souls, and that your former heat begins to abate, ply yourselves with warm clothes, get those good books that may acquaint you with such truths as may warm and affect your hearts.

I read the same amount of nonfiction and fiction.

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

A book is a present that you can open again and again

The Bible is not something piously stuffy and boring but a scientific procedure for successful living.

Richter said, 'Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.' 

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.

Let your heart be the light that guides your day and the experience that guides your night. see any bad situation as an experience, and you'll find it very easy to overcome any obstacle.

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet i will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars

My idea is to give hope, because where there is no hope, there is no vision, and where there is no vision, people will perish.

Every decision, setback, or triumph is an opportunity to identify the seeds of truth that make you the wondrous human being you are.

Books, for me, have always been a way to escape. They were my path to personal freedom. I actually learned to read at the age of three, and once I did, I quickly learned that there was a whole world beyond my grandmother's farm in Mississippi.