Jerry Falwell: Quotes about personality

Jerry Falwell was American evangelical pastor, televangelist, and conservative political commentator. Explore interesting quotes on personality.

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“Regardless of the response from the Jewish person, we remain friends in support of the State of Israel as required by scripture.”

Jerry Falwell

"Hagee, Falwell deny endorsing 'dual covenant'" in The Jerusalem Post (2 March 2006) http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1139395523403

“And the fact that John Kerry would not support a federal marriage amendment [prohibiting gay marriage], it equates in our minds as someone 150 years ago saying I'm personally opposed to slavery, but if my neighbor wants to own one or two that's OK. We don't buy that.”

Jerry Falwell

CNN : Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0411/03/acd.01.html (3 November 2004)

“At the same time, 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

"Ministers and Marches" sermon (1965), Lynchburg, Virginia, quoted in [2008-08-19, Blue Dixie: Awakening the South's Democratic Majority, Bob Moser, New York, Henry Holt, 9780805087710, 16839743M, 173, http://books.google.com/books?id=l8R570Dq60YC&pg=PA173]
also quoted in A Testament of Hope: the essential writings of Martin Luther King (1990) by James M Washington, pub Harper Collins, San Francisco ISBN 0060646918

“You'll be riding along in an automobile. You'll be the driver perhaps. You're a Christian. There'll be several people in the automobile with you, maybe someone who is not a Christian. When the trumpet sounds you and the other born-again believers in that automobile will be instantly caught away - you will disappear, leaving behind only your clothes and physical things that cannot inherit eternal life. That unsaved person or persons in the automobile will suddenly be startled to find the car suddenly somewhere crashes… Other cars on the highway driven by believers will suddenly be out of control and stark pandemonium will occur on … every highway in the world where Christians are caught away from the drivers wheel.”

Jerry Falwell

Nuclear War and the Second Coming of Christ (1983) as quoted in "Does Reagan Expect a Nuclear Armageddon?" by Ronnie Dugger in Washington Post Outlook (8 April 1984)