Quotes from Jerry Falwell

I'm well aware of the pragmatism of politics.

I was taught in Bible college, religion and politics don't mix.

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

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

I feel most ministers who claim they've heard God's voice are eating too much pizza before they go to bed at night, and it's really an intestinal disorder, not a revelation.

I think the Moslem faith teaches hate.

There's been a concerted effort to steal Christmas.

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

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

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.

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.

Homosexuality is Satan's diabolical attack upon the family that will not only have a corrupting influence upon our next generation, but it will also bring down the wrath of God upon America.

Christians, like slaves and soldiers, ask no questions.

Nothing of Eternal Value is ever accomplished apart from prayer.

The Bible is a love story. Time and time again it illustrates how much God loves the world in spite of its sinful disobedience...The last book of the Bible, the Revelation of St John the Divine, creates a beautiful and yet terrifying picture of those last days when God will reveal Himself in judgment and in grace to all creation.

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

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

Nothing of spiritual significance comes without sacrifice. Your spirituality will always be measured by the size of your sacrifice.

Your words can permanently influence a life.

The First Amendment is not without limits.

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.

Temptation has been here ever since the Garden of Eden.

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.

I read the Old Testament, New Testament, Psalms and Proverbs every day.