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25 quotes by Jim Bakker

James Orsen "Jim" Bakker (pronounced "Baker"; born January 2, 1940) 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. A sex scandal led to his resignation from the ministry. Subsequent revelations of accounting fraud brought about his imprisonment and divorce. He later remarried and returned to...
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You can't fake it when you're alone with God, you know.

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

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

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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... →

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I don't know, examination I guess. And then they put the jump suit back on me again. I went through the compound - I remember somebody shouting... →

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

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I write about it in the book and, you know, explain that. But that was the technicality that actually got my sentence reduced - that Alan Dershowitz... →

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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 -... →

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It was dripping and, you know, and there was a whole line of cameras and microphones. I felt like - you remember the honor guards, only it was a... →

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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... →

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

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

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

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