Faith & Spirit Quote by Tim LaHaye

“I think God has chosen to use this as a tool” is a masterclass in soft-authority rhetoric: modest on the surface, totalizing in effect. LaHaye leads with “I think,” a little verbal shrug that signals humility and discourages direct rebuttal. Who wants to argue with a man merely sharing an impression? But the sentence quickly escalates from private intuition to cosmic endorsement. Once God is the subject, disagreement stops being a debate and starts sounding like impiety.

The key word is “tool.” It frames whatever “this” refers to - a book series, a political movement, a media platform, even a personal crisis - as an instrument with a divine purpose. That metaphor does two things at once: it sanctifies the project and depersonalizes the agent. If you’re just a tool, you’re not grasping for influence; you’re being used. The speaker is absolved of ambition while still claiming the highest imaginable mandate.

In LaHaye’s cultural moment - late-20th-century American evangelicalism, where spiritual warfare language blended easily with activism and mass-market storytelling - this phrasing functions like a permissions slip. It invites followers to treat the work as more than content or strategy: as providence in motion. Subtextually, it also preempts critique of outcomes. If the tool is God’s, then objections can be recast as objections to God’s plan, not to human choices, messaging, or power.

The brilliance, and the danger, is its portability. “This” can be swapped endlessly, and each time the sentence offers the same promise: significance without accountability.