Daily Inspiration Quote by Tim LaHaye

The line lands like a backstage aside, the kind meant to puncture the myth of effortless productivity. Tim LaHaye is talking in the language of output - "cranking two out a year" is factory-floor diction, not pulpit diction - and that choice matters. It frames authorship and ministry-adjacent publishing as labor: scheduled, pressured, repeatable. The implied audience is anyone who assumes success is a smooth arc once the machine gets going.

The surprise is the contradiction: even at a pace most writers would envy, he "didn't think we would ever make it". That tension is the engine of the quote. He is confessing that velocity doesn't cancel vulnerability. In fact, it can heighten it. When you are producing constantly, you also have to keep proving the system works; each release becomes a referendum on whether the whole project is sustainable. The plural "we" is doing quiet work here too. LaHaye's most famous enterprise was collaborative and franchise-like, so the anxiety isn't merely personal; it's logistical, financial, reputational. "Make it" can mean sales, cultural legitimacy, staying power, even spiritual impact - and the ambiguity lets multiple stakes hang in the air.

Subtextually, it also doubles as a testimony: perseverance in uncertainty. Coming from a clergyman, the candor serves a moral function. It humanizes the believer-entrepreneur and reframes doubt not as failure, but as the constant companion of ambitious, public faith-driven work.