Jim Bakker
Jim Bakker
James Orsen "Jim" Bakkeris an American televangelist, a former Assemblies of God minister and a former hostof The PTL Club, an evangelical Christian television program...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionReligious Leader
Date of Birth2 January 1940
CityMuskegon, MI
CountryUnited States of America
Jim Bakker quotes about
faith church should
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.
responsibility men matter
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
who-i-am young knows
Most of you are so young you dont know who I am, and thats good.
wall son trying
To try to raise a son from inside the prison walls is a very difficult thing. But I want to say to the world my son at 16 was the one who tried the most to get me out of prison.
heaven matter faith-in-god
When you put your total faith in God, no matter what happens, to a person who's a true believer, if you die, you know you're going to heaven to be with God.
dream dreamer visionaries
Oh, I was never a businessman. I was a visionary, a dreamer.
honor lines cameras
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 dishonor guard.
fake-people fake alone-with-god
You can't fake it when you're alone with God, you know.
american-celebrity compound jim somebody suit
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.
american-celebrity chains literally pieces
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.
alan american-celebrity eight eventually reduced sentence
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.
american-celebrity became
My dream became bigger and bigger. And the box got bigger than the message, than the Gospel.
american-celebrity box million raise stay
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.
american-celebrity bad great happen men
They've all been through bad things. So bad things happen to people. They happen to all the great men of God.