Top 70 Jerry Falwell Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “You do not determine a man’s greatness by his talent or wealth, as the world does, but rather by what it takes to discourage him.”

— Jerry Falwell

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

— Jerry Falwell

3. “Kill them all in the Name of the Lord.”

— Jerry Falwell

4. “Your words can permanently influence a life.”

— Jerry Falwell

5. “Nothing of Eternal Value is ever accomplished apart from prayer.”

— Jerry Falwell

6. “If you’re not a born-again Christian, you’re a failure as a human being.”

— Jerry Falwell

7. “The National Organization of Women is the national organization of witches.”

— Jerry Falwell

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

— Jerry Falwell

9. “Christians, like slaves and soldiers, ask no questions.”

— Jerry Falwell

10. “I believe that the people of Israel are the chosen people of God.”

— Jerry Falwell

11. “During the last times, men will be lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God. When you think of our sports-driven society, and our media-driven society, and our leisure-driven society, then you understand we are living in the last days.”

— Jerry Falwell

12. “Revival is not just a feeling of excitement of the Lord. We get excited about many things, but excitement is not a revival if God is not the thing that gets us excited.”

— Jerry Falwell

13. “God does not hear the prayers of a Jew.”

— Jerry Falwell

14. “He is purple – the gay-pride color, and his antenna is shaped like a triangle – the gay pride symbol.”

— Jerry Falwell

15. “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

16. “Textbooks are Soviet propaganda.”

— Jerry Falwell

17. “One reason, of course, as a Christian, I believe the Bible is the word of God. I take the Bible as the standard.”

— Jerry Falwell

18. “Billy Graham is the chief servant of Satan in America.”

— Jerry Falwell

19. “I hope to see the day when, as in the early days of our country, we don’t have public schools. The churches will have taken them over again and Christians will be running them.”

— Jerry Falwell

20. “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

21. “Life is supposed to be lived for God and for others.”

— Jerry Falwell

22. “Labor unions should study and read the Bible instead of asking for more money. When people get right with God, they are better workers.”

— Jerry Falwell

23. “I believe with all my heart that the Bible is the infallible word of God. I therefore believe that, whatever it says, is so.”

— Jerry Falwell

24. “The church should be a disciplined charging army. Christians, like slaves and solders ask no questions. We are fighting a holy war.”

— Jerry Falwell

25. “A belief in God and a belief in astrology cannot be reconciled.”

— Jerry Falwell

26. “Temptation has been here ever since the Garden of Eden.”

— Jerry Falwell

27. “I must personally say that I do question the sincerity and nonviolent intentions of some civil rights leaders such as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Mr. James Farmer, and others, who are known to have left-wing associations.”

— Jerry Falwell

28. “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

29. “The easiest way of change history is to become a historian.”

— Jerry Falwell

30. “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

31. “One thing I have learned about Christians, having organized them for years – when they lose, they quit. And when they win they quit. We are just quitters.”

— Jerry Falwell

32. “The First Amendment is not without limits.”

— Jerry Falwell

33. “If we are going to save America and evangelize the world, we cannot accommodate secular philosophies that are diametrically opposed to Christian truth.”

— Jerry Falwell

34. “You’ve got to kill the terrorists before the killing stops. And I’m for the president to chase them all over the world. If it takes 10 years, blow them all away in the name of the Lord.”

— Jerry Falwell

35. “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

36. “If he’s going to be the counterfeit of Christ, the Antichrist has to be Jewish. The only thing we know is he must be male and Jewish.”

— Jerry Falwell

37. “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.”

— Jerry Falwell

38. “I am saying pornography hurts anyone who reads it – garbage in, garbage out.”

— Jerry Falwell

39. “The argument that making contraceptives available to young people would prevent teen pregnancies is ridiculous. That’s like offering a cookbook as a cure to people who are trying to lose weight.”

— Jerry Falwell

40. “This is probably as bad a day as the court has had on social issues since “Roe v Wade.””

— Jerry Falwell

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

— Jerry Falwell

42. “The ACLU is to Christians what the American Nazi party is to Jews.”

— Jerry Falwell

43. “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

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

— Jerry Falwell

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

— Jerry Falwell

46. “The Jews are returning to their land of unbelief. They are spiritually blind and desperately in need of their Messiah and Savior.”

— Jerry Falwell

47. “Dan Moldea, the lead investigator for Larry Flynt’s ongoing quest to uncover sexual indiscretions of Republican congressional members, has now admitted he was hired by the law firm defending President Clinton.”

— Jerry Falwell

48. “Civil rights for all Americans, black, white, red, yellow, the rich, poor, young, old, gay, straight, et cetera, is not a liberal or a conservative value. It’s an American value that I would think that we pretty much all agree on.”

— Jerry Falwell

49. “I think hell’s a real place where real people spend a real eternity.”

— Jerry Falwell

50. “God continues to lift the curtain and allow the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserve.”

— Jerry Falwell