Top 124 Quotes & Sayings by Jerry Falwell

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Last updated on December 23, 2024.
Jerry Falwell

Jerry Laymon Falwell Sr. was an American Baptist pastor, televangelist, and conservative activist. He was the founding pastor of the Thomas Road Baptist Church, a megachurch in Lynchburg, Virginia. He founded Lynchburg Christian Academy in 1967, founded Liberty University in 1971, and co-founded the Moral Majority in 1979.

If I were president of the United States, I would include Moslems in my presidency.
Whoever is sitting in the White House, especially in their second term, when gas goes up to $3 a gallon, and Katrina, and whenever we're at war, that person sitting in the White House gets the brunt of the accusations.
God created the family to provide the maximum love and support and morality and example that one can imagine. — © Jerry Falwell
God created the family to provide the maximum love and support and morality and example that one can imagine.
I am such a strong admirer and supporter of George W. Bush that if he suggested eliminating the income tax or doubling it, I would vote yes on first blush.
I am a Christian.
God continues to lift the curtain and allow the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserve.
If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being.
If Chief Justice Warren and his associates had known God's word and had desired to do the Lord's will, I am quite confident that the 1954 decision would never have been made.
I read the Old Testament, New Testament, Psalms and Proverbs every day.
God himself preserved the Bible, and brought it down through the ages.
I'm at work by 8 or 8:30, and when I get home every night, my wife and I walk around the lawn. We have dinner together, and then we spend most of our evenings alone.
I work 6:00 a.m. to midnight, seven days a week.
I'm glad now, at age 66, that I never used alcohol or tobacco... I've buried a lot of friends who used tobacco or alcohol. — © Jerry Falwell
I'm glad now, at age 66, that I never used alcohol or tobacco... I've buried a lot of friends who used tobacco or alcohol.
The First Amendment is not without limits.
But I don't believe anyone begins a homosexual.
If Americans will face the truth, our nation can be turned around and can be saved from the evils and the destruction that have fallen upon every other nation that has turned its back on God.
If I were doing something that the Bible condemns, I have two choices. I can straighten up my act, or I can somehow distort and twist and change the meaning of the Bible.
I think the Moslem faith teaches hate.
Any sex outside of the marriage bond between a man and a woman is violating God's law.
I don't think religious groups should be allowed to apply for federal funds to start new ministries they have not been doing before the funding was available.
The true Negro does not want integration... He realizes his potential is far better among his own race.
Textbooks are Soviet propaganda.
I think Liberty students ought to date a lot without commitment in mind. If you're thinking commitment - and you probably shouldn't until you're a senior - you don't want to start your marriage off under the constraints of poverty and schooling.
I believe with all my heart that the Bible is the infallible word of God.
Temptation has been here ever since the Garden of Eden.
We will see a breakdown of the family and family values if we decide to approve same-sex marriage, and if we decide to establish homosexuality as an acceptable alternative lifestyle with all the benefits that go with equating it with the heterosexual lifestyle.
We want young people to know what they believe, why they believe it. I believe America was built on the Judeo-Christian ethic; I want to see the nation return to the Judeo-Christian ethic.
And, these Islamic fundamentalists, these radical terrorists, these Middle Eastern monsters are committed to destroying the Jewish nation, driving her into the Mediterranean, conquering the world.
There's been a concerted effort to steal Christmas.
My father was an agnostic.
The whole global warming thing is created to destroy America's free enterprise system and our economic stability.
I believe that the people of Israel are the chosen people of God.
I believe that global warming is a myth. And so, therefore, I have no conscience problems at all and I'm going to buy a Suburban next time.
We must, from the highest office in the land right down to the shoeshine boy in the airport, have a return to biblical basics.
When you have a godly husband, a godly wife, children who respect their parents and who are loved by their parents, who provide for those children their physical and spiritual and material needs, lovingly, you have the ideal unit.
I think hell's a real place where real people spend a real eternity.
Christians, like slaves and soldiers, ask no questions.
I don't think I know a Scientologist except when I see one or two of their actors on the Hollywood screen. — © Jerry Falwell
I don't think I know a Scientologist except when I see one or two of their actors on the Hollywood screen.
I wake up a little before six, and I go right to my study. That's where I do my daily reading of the Oswald Chambers book, 'My Utmost for His Highest.'
I believe that all of us are born heterosexual, physically created with a plumbing that's heterosexual, and created with the instincts and desires that are basically, fundamentally, heterosexual.
It is God's planet - and he's taking care of it. And I don't believe that anything we do will raise or lower the temperature one point.
I do not believe we can blame genetics for adultery, homosexuality, dishonesty and other character flaws.
I'm well aware of the pragmatism of politics.
I was taught in Bible college, religion and politics don't mix.
A pastor has to be media-savvy if he's going to reach everybody. I don't mean to be ugly and harsh, but to be forthright and candid. And the result is that people that don't like you start listening.
I truly cannot imagine men with men, women with women, doing what they were not physically created to do, without abnormal stress and misbehavior.
AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.
I grew up in the segregated South, right here in Lynchburg, Virginia. — © Jerry Falwell
I grew up in the segregated South, right here in Lynchburg, Virginia.
The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.
Preachers are not called to be politicians but soul winners.
Grown men should not be having sex with prostitutes unless they are married to them.
Love is commitment; love is a relationship that never gives up.
We're fighting against humanism, we're fighting against liberalism...we are fighting against all the systems of Satan that are destroying our nation today...our battle is with Satan himself.
I believe with all my heart that the Bible is the infallible word of God. I therefore believe that, whatever it says, is so.
Nothing of spiritual significance comes without sacrifice. Your spirituality will always be measured by the size of your sacrifice.
You do not determine a man's greatness by his talent or wealth, as the world does, but rather by what it takes to discourage him.
I listen to feminists and all these radical gals - most of them are failures. They've blown it. Some of them have been married, but they married some Casper Milquetoast who asked permission to go to the bathroom. These women just need a man in the house. That's all they need. Most of the feminists need a man to tell them what time of day it is and to lead them home. And they blew it and they're mad at all men. Feminists hate men. They're sexist. They hate men - that's their problem.
Billy Graham is the chief servant of Satan in America.
Kill them all in the Name of the Lord.
During the last times, men will be lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God. When you think of our sports-driven society, and our media-driven society, and our leisure-driven society, then you understand we are living in the last days.
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