Jerry Falwell quotes

Jerry Falwell was a charismatic American pastor and televangelist, widely known as a pivotal figure in the conservative movement. Born in 1933, Falwell founded the influential Liberty University in 1971, which now stands as one of the nation's largest Christian institutions. Notorious for his outspoken views on morality and politics, Falwell built a loyal following through his television program, "The Old Time Gospel Hour." Throughout his career, he championed socially conservative causes and played a vital role in shaping the modern Christian Right. Explore more about the life and influence of Jerry Falwell here.

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

- Jerry Falwell

Temptation has been here ever since the Garden of Eden.

- 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 lifestyle.

- Jerry Falwell

I grew up in the segregated South, right here in Lynchburg, Virginia.

- Jerry Falwell

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

- Jerry Falwell

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

- Jerry Falwell

I believe that the people of Israel are the chosen people of God.

- Jerry Falwell

I do not believe we can blame genetics for adultery, homosexuality, dishonesty and other character flaws.

- Jerry Falwell

I think the Moslem faith teaches hate.

- 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 think hell's a real place where real people spend a real eternity.

- Jerry Falwell

Christians, like slaves and soldiers, ask no questions.

- 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

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 idea unit.

- Jerry Falwell

Textbooks are Soviet propaganda.

- 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

I am a Christian.

- Jerry Falwell

I think pornography is a scourge on society.

- 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

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

- Jerry Falwell

I work 6:00 a.m. to midnight, seven days a week.

- Jerry Falwell

But I don't believe anyone begins a homosexual.

- Jerry Falwell

I am saying pornography hurts anyone who reads it, garbage in, garbage out.

- Jerry Falwell

There's been a concerted effort to steal Christmas.

- Jerry Falwell

The First Amendment is not without limits.

- Jerry Falwell

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

- 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

The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.

- Jerry Falwell

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

- 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