Quotes by Jim Bakker

About Jim Bakker:

James Orsen "Jim" Bakker is an American televangelist, a former Assemblies of God minister and a former host (with his then-wife Tammy Faye Bakker) of The PTL Club, a popular evangelical Christian television program.
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You can't fake it when you're alone with God, you know.

Jim Bakker

Why should I apologize because God throws in crystal chandeliers, mahogany floors, and the best construction in the world?

Jim Bakker

God's forgiveness is the only thing. And, well, I take full responsibility for the adultery. It was my fault and, you know, no matter what went on, the man has to take responsibility; and I do.

Jim Bakker

I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.

Jim Bakker

They put chains on me; they chained my waist, my legs. Put me in the back of a squad car, and I literally blacked out. I didn't even - there's whole pieces missing.

Jim Bakker

Oh, I was never a businessman. I was a visionary, a dreamer.

Jim Bakker

As I see with Lori's testimony, you say what good could come out of all these abortions and all what she's been through? But she has been a part of a new Bible for women, a mentoring Bible.

Jim Bakker

I think - there's always going to be a percentage of people who maybe aren't as good as others.

Jim Bakker

Most of you are so young you don't know who I am, and that's good.

Jim Bakker

When you put your total faith in God, no matter what happens, to a person who's a true believer, if you die, you know you're going to heaven to be with God.

Jim Bakker

They've all been through bad things. So bad things happen to people. They happen to all the great men of God.

Jim Bakker

When I first went to prison, I was even questioning where, God, where are you?

Jim Bakker

So you can't lose serving God, and that all things work together for good.

Jim Bakker

And God knows I needed to be forgiven. So I had to forgive everybody. And then God - as I read in the word, you're supposed to pray for your enemies. Try that one on.

Jim Bakker

I feel like God has forgiven me of so much, that I will forgive everyone who has hurt us.

Jim Bakker

It's not listed in the Bible, but my spiritual gift, my specific calling from God, is to be a television talk-show host.

Jim Bakker

To try to raise a son from inside the prison walls is a very difficult thing. But I want to say to the world my son at 16 was the one who tried the most to get me out of prison.

Jim Bakker

In the book of Colossians, it talks about that because of what Christ did, we are pure. We are without judgment on ourselves. And only through him can we do something like this.

Jim Bakker

You know, I try not to look back, because looking forward is so much better than looking backward.

Jim Bakker

The box got bigger, the outside, the buildings. And all that we were doing. I had to raise about $1 million every two days just to stay alive.

Jim Bakker

Author Bio

  • NameJim Bakker
  • DescriptionAmerican television evangelist
  • BornJanuary 2, 1940
  • CountryUnited States Of America