“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.”
― Jerry Falwell
“I work 6:00 a.m. to midnight, seven days a week.”
― Jerry Falwell
“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.”
― Jerry Falwell
“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.”
― Jerry Falwell
“I do not believe we can blame genetics for adultery, homosexuality, dishonesty and other character flaws.”
― Jerry Falwell
“Christians, like slaves and soldiers, ask no questions.”
― Jerry Falwell
“The whole global warming thing is created to destroy America’s free enterprise system and our economic stability.”
― Jerry Falwell
“AIDS is not just God’s punishment for homosexuals; it is God’s punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.”
― Jerry Falwell
“Textbooks are Soviet propaganda.”
― Jerry Falwell
“If you’re not a born-again Christian, you’re a failure as a human being.”
― Jerry Falwell
“I read the Old Testament, New Testament, Psalms and Proverbs every day.”
― Jerry Falwell
“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.”
― Jerry Falwell
“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.”
― Jerry Falwell
“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.”
― Jerry Falwell
“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.”
― Jerry Falwell
“The idea that religion and politics don’t mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.”
― Jerry Falwell
“I was taught in Bible college, religion and politics don’t mix.”
― Jerry Falwell
“Preachers are not called to be politicians but soul winners.”
― Jerry Falwell
“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.”
― Jerry Falwell
“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.”
― Jerry Falwell
“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.”
― Jerry Falwell
“God created the family to provide the maximum love and support and morality and example that one can imagine.”
― Jerry Falwell
“I think the Moslem faith teaches hate.”
― Jerry Falwell
“If I were president of the United States, I would include Moslems in my presidency.”
― Jerry Falwell
“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 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.”
― Jerry Falwell
“But I don’t believe anyone begins a homosexual.”
― Jerry Falwell
“Any sex outside of the marriage bond between a man and a woman is violating God’s law.”
― Jerry Falwell
“Temptation has been here ever since the Garden of Eden.”
― Jerry Falwell
“I believe with all my heart that the Bible is the infallible word of God.”
― Jerry Falwell
“God himself preserved the Bible, and brought it down through the ages.”
― Jerry Falwell
“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.”
― Jerry Falwell
“My father was an agnostic.”
― 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.”
― Jerry Falwell
“I truly cannot imagine men with men, women with women, doing what they were not physically created to do, without abnormal stress and misbehavior.”
― Jerry Falwell
“I think hell’s a real place where real people spend a real eternity.”
― Jerry Falwell
“I grew up in the segregated South, right here in Lynchburg, Virginia.”
― Jerry Falwell
“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.”
― Jerry Falwell
“I am a Christian.”
― Jerry Falwell
“The First Amendment is not without limits.”
― Jerry Falwell
“There’s been a concerted effort to steal Christmas.”
― Jerry Falwell
“I believe that the people of Israel are the chosen people of God.”
― Jerry Falwell
“God continues to lift the curtain and allow the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserve.”
― Jerry Falwell
“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.’”
― Jerry Falwell
“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.”
― Jerry Falwell
“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.”
― Jerry Falwell
“I’m well aware of the pragmatism of politics.”
― Jerry Falwell
“We must, from the highest office in the land right down to the shoeshine boy in the airport, have a return to biblical basics.”
― Jerry Falwell
“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.”
― Jerry Falwell
“The true Negro does not want integration… He realizes his potential is far better among his own race.”
― Jerry Falwell
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