Quotes by Jerry Falwell

About Jerry Falwell:

Jerry Lamon Falwell, Sr. was an American evangelical Southern Baptist pastor, televangelist, and a conservative political commentator. He was known for his stance against homosexuality. He was the founding pastor of the Thomas Road Baptist Church, a megachurch in Lynchburg, Virginia. He founded Lynchburg Christian Academy (now Liberty Christian Academy) in 1967 and Liberty University in 1971 and co-founded the Moral Majority in 1979.
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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

If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being.

Jerry Falwell

God created the family to provide the maximum love and support and morality and example that one can imagine.

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

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...

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

There's been a concerted effort to steal Christmas.

Jerry Falwell

I think the Moslem faith teaches hate.

Jerry Falwell

Any sex outside of the marriage bond between a man and a woman is violating God's law.

Jerry Falwell

I believe with all my heart that the Bible is the infallible word of God.

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

God himself preserved the Bible, and brought it down through the ages.

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

AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.

Jerry Falwell

If I were president of the United States, I would include Moslems in my presidency.

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

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

But I don't believe anyone begins a homosexual.

Jerry Falwell

Temptation has been here ever since the Garden of Eden.

Jerry Falwell

Author Bio

  • NameJerry Falwell
  • DescriptionAmerican evangelical pastor, televangelist, and conservative political commentator
  • AliasesJerry Lamon Falwell, Sr.
  • BornAugust 11, 1933
  • DiedMay 15, 2007
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPreacher