Ted Haggard Quotes

#1. You go after crude, rabble-rousing chancers like Ted Haggard, Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson, rather than sophisticated theologians like Tillich or Bonhoeffer who teach the sort of religion I believe in.

Richard Dawkins

#2. I think it's just too kinda juicy and compelling to imagine people in their private lives, but then half the time people's private lives are just so much more bizarre and Ted Haggard-like than you could ever imagine. It's almost hard to write fiction anymore.

Jerry Stahl

#3. New Rule: There is no devil, so stop blaming your screw-ups on him. Last week, one of the biggest evangelical leaders in America, the Reverend Ted Haggard, was outed for drugs and extramarital gay sex with a male prostitute. Or as Fox News reported it, 'John Kerry hates our troops'.

Bill Maher

#4. I can't be gay! I'm a happily married conservative, just like Ted Haggard and Larry Craig.

Stephen Colbert

#5. Never stand on one spot, always be doing something in line with your calling

Sunday Adelaja

#6. Canadian cities looked the way American cities did on television.

William Gibson

#7. I am steady with my wife. I'm faithful to my wife.

Ted Haggard

#8. If the evangelicals vote, they determine the election.

Ted Haggard

#9. The fact is I am guilty of sexual immorality. And I take responsibility for the entire problem. I am a deceiver and a liar. There's a part of my life that is so repulsive and dark that I have been warring against it for all of my adult life,

Ted Haggard

#10. I called to buy some meth, but I threw it away.

Ted Haggard

#11. The human animal only sees what it wants to see.

Marcia Muller

#12. Hill sprints are good for everyone!

Kara Goucher

#13. How much is your sin going to cost me?

Ted Haggard

#14. You know all the surveys say that evangelicals have the best sex life of any other group.

Ted Haggard

#15. I think that probably, if I were 21 in this society, I would identify myself as a bisexual.

Ted Haggard

#16. We don't have to debate about what we should think about homosexual activity, it's written in the Bible.

Ted Haggard

#17. I was referred to Mike Jones from the concierge at a Marriott hotel when I asked for a masseur.

Ted Haggard

#18. If I were born in other generation, I would be a singer rapper, dancing is also ... I was famous as a good dancer. My dancing skill was just hided by other members better skill.

Yesung

#19. I did not have a homosexual relationship with a man in Denver.

Ted Haggard

#20. I am a firm believer in living as if there were no such thing as a secret. If we hide our sins and live in darkness, we will never get the healing we so desperately need; in fact, if it is hidden so well that we don't even recognize it, we may never even find forgiveness.

Ted Haggard

#21. A fantasy of mine is to have an orgy with about six young college guys ranging from 18 to 22 in age.

Ted Haggard

#22. The third big idea is that we confess our sins to someone close to us
a friend or our spouse. I don't mean a public declaration of our shortcomings; I mean confession in the security of a trusted and living friend.

Ted Haggard

#23. Don't punish people who repent; heal them. I don't believe that private sin requires public rebuke or removal from office if repentance is taking place. However, when no evidence of true repentance exists, then discipline is in order.

Ted Haggard

#24. The importance of the Bible to a church is to keep the church on track. The role of the Constitution in government is to keep the government on track.

Ted Haggard

#25. I've never known anyone who has fallen into sin and been successfully restored by the formal church structure. Nor have I ever seen a formal church structure wisely deal with sin, enabling ministry to continue without interruption.

Ted Haggard

#26. Well ... I'm a wicked man who can, on occasion, be just a bit nice. And I've been searching for a nice girl who can, on occasion, be just a bit wicked.
-St. Vincent

Lisa Kleypas

#27. I want a church I can stay in for years. I don't want surprises, scandals, or secrets from my church leaders.

Ted Haggard

#28. I think my brand of country music is that's been influenced by not just the rough-stock rodeo side or Ted Nugent's "let's get crazy style", but also the stand-up and sing style's like George Strait and Merle Haggard, and also the wild side of Chris Ledoux

Cody Johnson