Top 100 Bakker Quotes
#1. We can't be guided - because we're so far from it. We've so destroyed it. We're so far from that that we can't use it. I mean, Jim Bakker heard from God. What a good job he did!
Susan Powter
#2. I think Jim got screwed. I think Jim Bakker would have been a great preacher. Jim Bakker was very good at what he did.
Jessica Hahn
#3. If he wants to blow his head off, let him. I don't give a damn about Jim Bakker.
Jessica Hahn
#4. What bothers me is that Jim Bakker lies. Jim Bakker knows for a fact that I was virgin.
Jessica Hahn
#5. Jim Bakker spells his name with two k's because three would be too obvious.
Bill Maher
#6. Jim Bakker. He's lost everything, he's ruined. And the worst thing of all he still has to wake up to her!
Sam Kinison
#7. Say what you will about Leona Helmsley, when it comes to standing trial, she's twice the man Jim Bakker is.
David Letterman
#8. Jim Bakker ripped off the bedspread and said, my wife doesn't make me feel like a man anymore.
Jessica Hahn
#9. They did is sent me down Clearwater, Florida, and they said to me, Jessica, I need you to make Jim Bakker feel better.
Jessica Hahn
#10. The Knock at the Door by Ina Boudier-Bakker.
Anne Frank
#11. My first quote was, I don't want to hurt God's people. Jim Bakker's quote was, I was set up by a female.
Jessica Hahn
#12. Jim Bakker is an extremely talented preacher, if he would just get it together.
Jessica Hahn
#13. Jim Bakker came along. He said, Jessica Hahn, listen. You're a virgin. As God as my witness. He said, We need a girl that we can trust.
Jessica Hahn
#14. He no longer heard Kellhus speak so much as observed him cut and carve, whittle and hew, as though the man had somehow shattered the glass of language and fashioned knives from the pieces.
R. Scott Bakker
#15. It's not listed in the Bible, but my spiritual gift, my specific calling from God, is to be a television talk-show host.
Jim Bakker
#16. When you - when someone dies in your family and you think you're over it, and then you wake up in the morning and it hits you, 'I won't ever see my brother again. I won't ever see my mom again.' And it just kind of hits you like that.
Tammy Faye Bakker
#17. It's the concert of knowledge and ignorance that underwrites our decisions.
R. Scott Bakker
#18. I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.
Jim Bakker
#19. A beggar's mistake harms no one but the beggar. A king's mistake, however, harms everyone but the king. Too often, the measure of power lies not in the number who obey your will, but in the number who suffer your stupidity.
R. Scott Bakker
#20. I love being under submission to my husband ... I believe in keeping the male ego intact.
Tammy Faye Bakker
#21. I talk to God every single day. And I say, 'God, my life is in your hands, and I trust you with me.'
Tammy Faye Bakker
#22. When we really understand it, we will always find grace offensive. And that's exactly the way it should be. If we start to feel comfortable with grace, then we've lost what it really means.
Jay Bakker
#23. We belittle what we cannot bear. We make figments out of fundamentals, all in the name of preserving our own peculiar fancies. The best way to secure one's own deception is to accuse others of deceit.
R. Scott Bakker
#25. Some say men continually war against circumstances, but I say they perpetually flee. What are the works of men if not a momentary respite, a hiding place soon to be discovered by catastrophe? Life is endless flight before the hunter we call the world. - EKYANNUS VIII, 111 APHORISMS Spring,
R. Scott Bakker
#26. What if the choice isn't between certainties, between this faith and that, but between faith and doubt? Between renouncing the mystery and embracing it?
R. Scott Bakker
#27. Land bridges were everywhere during the extinction, many species were spreading, and there were many diseases.
Robert T. Bakker
#28. 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 on, the man has to take responsibility; and I do.
Jim Bakker
#29. Honey, I am going to my grave with my eyelashes and my makeup on.
Tammy Faye Bakker
#30. Honey, God loves everybody. It's human beings who mess things up.
Tammy Faye Bakker
#31. Given the manifest frailty of men, given the long succession of delusions that was their history, what could be more preposterous than claiming oneself the least deluded, let alone privy to the absolute?
R. Scott Bakker
#32. I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
Tammy Faye Bakker
#33. I'm pro-gay marriage. I don't believe that that's a sin.
Jay Bakker
#34. I would say the number one thing with cancer is not to let it scare you because when you are afraid, it destroys your immune system.
Tammy Faye Bakker
#35. Grace will follow us even when we are going the wrong way
Ricky Maye
#36. The worst part of writing is meeting all these great new characters and having no one to talk about (the adventures you share with) them.
Claudia Bakker
#37. Perhaps she did now, in this foreign country, because it was November here too or because she sensed how vulnerable people are when they have no idea what to do next, how to move forward or back.
Gerbrand Bakker
#38. Beliefs are the foundation of actions. Those who believed without doubting, he would say, acted without thinking. And those who acted without thinking were enslaved.
R. Scott Bakker
#39. Conviction, no matter how narcotic its depth, simply did not make true.
R. Scott Bakker
#40. 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, Jim don't let them break you.
Jim Bakker
#41. The public image of dinosaurs is tainted by extinction. It's hard to accept dinosaurs as a success when they are all dead. But the fact of ultimate extinction should not make us overlook the absolutely unsurpassed role dinosaurs played in the history of life.
Robert T. Bakker
#42. Sleep, when deep enough, is indistinguishable from vigilance.
R. Scott Bakker
#44. Seeking survival, hostile, hidden from sight,
Deliciously flavoured - juicy, sweet bite,
Exploding senses preparing to ignite,
Inspiring to escape from the suffocating night.
Claudia Bakker
#45. He knew that one never stood still, even while waiting. That sometimes the sheathed knife could cut the most throats of all.
R. Scott Bakker
#46. Most of you are so young you don't know who I am, and that's good.
Jim Bakker
#47. Everyone thinks they've won the Magical Belief Lottery. Everyone thinks they more or less have a handle on things, that they, as opposed to the billions who disagree with them, have somehow lucked into the one true belief system.
R. Scott Bakker
#48. Ignorance was ever the iron of certainty, for it was as blind to itself as sleep. It was the absence of questions that made answers absolute - not knowledge! To
R. Scott Bakker
#50. Something ... made him feel small, not in the way of orphans or beggars or children, but in a good way. In the way of souls.
R. Scott Bakker
#51. Religious people today are courts and juries. When it comes down to it, Jesus died on the cross so that we could learn to love others like we love ourselves, not judge them or persecute them.
Tammy Faye Bakker
#52. Gods are but greater demons," the Cishaurim said, "hungers across the surface of eternity, wanting only to taste the clarity of our souls. Can you not see this?
R. Scott Bakker
#53. What selfish soul
would ask another
to live
this way.
Claudia Bakker
#54. If we measured success by longevity, then dinosaurs must rank as the number one success story in the history of land life.
Robert T. Bakker
#55. Sit with a merchant or sit with a beggar, and it'll always be the beggar who buys your first drink.
R. Scott Bakker
#56. But when you come to Heritage USA, remember to bring your Bible and your VISA card - because the Bible is the Holy Truth, and God doesnt take American Express
Jim Bakker
#57. I don't think God cares what you put in your body or on your body.
Tammy Faye Bakker
#58. He had despised the sorcerer, thinking him one of those mewling souls who forever groaned beneath burdens of their own manufacture.
R. Scott Bakker
#59. 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 - there's whole pieces missing.
Jim Bakker
#60. What is practicality but one moment betrayed for the next? -
R. Scott Bakker
#61. 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 used to have my sentence - it came down eventually to eight years.
Jim Bakker
#62. The world is a circle that possesses as many centres as it does men.
R. Scott Bakker
#63. The world has long ceased to be the author of your anguish.
R. Scott Bakker
#64. I think people need to know that there's great peace and joy in knowing the Lord - the Lord Jesus Christ - as your savior.
Tammy Faye Bakker
#65. As an undergraduate I held many small jobs as an illustrator.
Robert T. Bakker
#66. Fossils have richer stories to tell - about the lub-dub of dinosaur life - than we have been willing to listen to.
Robert T. Bakker
#67. And 'barbarity,' I fear, is simply a word for unfamiliarity that threatens.
R. Scott Bakker
#68. Dinosaurs are the best way to teach kids, and adults, the immensity of geologic time.
Robert T. Bakker
#69. If soot stains your tunic, dye it black. This is vengeance.
R. Scott Bakker
#70. To me it seems that the warm blooded dinosaurs replaced advanced mammal ancestors that were warm blooded, also.
Robert T. Bakker
#71. I'll bet you a six-pack of Coors that pretty soon, people will be discovering Cretaceous parasites inside Cretaceous bones. The possibility of looking into epidemiology and pathology is pretty cool.
Robert T. Bakker
#72. Achamian tossed his hands skyward in dismay. Foolish boy! How many faiths are there? How many competing beliefs? And you would murder another on the slender hope that yours is somehow the only one?
R. Scott Bakker
#73. Love is lust made meaningful. Hope is hunger made human.
R. Scott Bakker
#74. I also got a chance to go to the American Museum in New York, which helped my interest.
Robert T. Bakker
#75. Oh, I was never a businessman. I was a visionary, a dreamer.
Jim Bakker
#76. It is strange the way trauma deadens curiosity. To suffer cruelty in excess is to be delivered from care. The human heart sets aside its questions when the future is too capricious. This is the irony of tribulation.
To know the world will never be so bad.
R. Scott Bakker
#77. In 1941 Richard Owen said that the dinosaurs were almost hot blooded.
Robert T. Bakker
#78. To indulge it is to breed it. To punish it is to feed it. Madness knows no bridle but the knife. - SCYLVENDI
R. Scott Bakker
#79. If we're nothing more than our thoughts and passions, and if our thoughts and passions are nothing more than movements of our souls, then we are nothing more than those who move us.
R. Scott Bakker
#80. The Bible says, 'Judge not lest ye be judged.' Our lives are supposed to be hospitals, not courtrooms.
Tammy Faye Bakker
#81. You can only believe so many lies before becoming one of them.
R. Scott Bakker
#82. One of my major goals is to develop a web of the small Wyoming museums and create a major museum system. There are about eight of these museums, and they are all scattered.
Robert T. Bakker
#83. You can count the bruises on your heart easily enough, but numbering sins is a far tricker matter. Men are eternally forgetting for their benefit. They leave it to the World to remeber, and to the Outside to call them to harsh accout. One hundred Heavens ... for one thousand Hells.
R. Scott Bakker
#85. You know, I try not to look back, because looking forward is so much better than looking backward.
Jim Bakker
#86. The bondage we are born into is the bondage we cannot see. Verily, freedom is little more than the ignorance of tyranny. Live long enough, and you will see: Men resent not the whip so much as the hand that wields it.
R. Scott Bakker
#87. To piss across water is to piss across your reflection
R. Scott Bakker
#88. Zsoronga, Sorweel was beginning to realize, possessed the enviable ability to yoke his conviction to his need - to believe, absolutely, whatever his heart required. For Sorweel, belief and want always seemed like ropes too short to bind together, forcing him to play the knot as a result.
R. Scott Bakker
#89. Here we find further argument for Gotagga's supposition that the world is round. How else could all men stand higher than their brothers?
R. Scott Bakker
#90. Faith is the truth of passion. Since no passion is more true than another, faith is the truth of nothing.
R. Scott Bakker
#91. God doesn't want his people to go second-class.
Jim Bakker
#92. He said ... " A pause. He cleared his throat. "He said that pity was the only love I could hope for."
He saw her swallow, blink. "Oh, Akka ... "
Of all the world, only she truly understood. Of all the world.
R. Scott Bakker
#93. The box got bigger, the outside, the buildings. And all that we were doing. I had to raise about $1 million every two days just to stay alive.
Jim Bakker
#94. You don't decide to build a church because you have money in the bank. You build because God says this is what I should do. Faith is the supplier of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen.
Jim Bakker
#95. Why should I apologize because God throws in crystal chandeliers, mahogany floors, and the best construction in the world?
Jim Bakker
#96. I wanted a literate, socially intricate, and cosmopolitan world - something I could have fun destroying.
R. Scott Bakker
#97. No decision is so fine as to not bind us to its consequences. No consequence is so unexpected as to absolve us of our decisions. Not even death.
R. Scott Bakker
#98. Convince a man to take a single step - after all, what earthly difference could one step make? - and he would walk the next mile to prove himself right.
R. Scott Bakker
#99. Though all men be equally frail before the world, the differences between them are terrifying.
R. Scott Bakker
#100. Answers are like opium: the more you imbibe, the more you need. Which is why the sober man finds solace in mystery.
R. Scott Bakker
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