Pat Robertson Quotes & Sayings

To say that it all came about 6,000 years ago is just nonsense, and I think it's time we come off of that stuff and say this isn't possible — Pat Robertson

Haiti is in desperate poverty. — Pat Robertson

The signs of the antichrist spirit are clear. They emerge in this fashion: A significant minority then an actual majority, of the people in a society begin to throw off the restraints of history, then the restraints of written law, then accepted standards of morality, then established religion, and, finally God Himself. — Pat Robertson

I think the Democrats are catering to them, but, you know, in the entire history of the United States of America, there has never been a judge who has been refused a vote when there was a majority of Senators willing to vote for his confirmation, never in history. — Pat Robertson

Abortion's a private decision. But I just think it shouldn't be federalized. — Pat Robertson

Whenever the civil government forbids the practice of things that God has commanded us to do, or tells us to do things He has commanded us not to do, then we are on solid ground in disobeying the government and rebelling against it. — Pat Robertson

Every time the liberals pass a bill - I don't care what it involves - they stick criminal sanctions on it. They don't feel there is any way people are going to keep a law unless they can put them in jail. — Pat Robertson

I've been to Israel many times - I've lost count of how many times. — Pat Robertson

The Supreme Court has insulted you over and over again, Lord. They've taken your Bible away from the schools. They've forbidden little children to pray. They've taken the knowledge of God as best they can, and organizations have come into court to take the knowledge of God out of the public square of America. — Pat Robertson

In the eyes of the Associated Press, American Christianity, which springs from the Protestant Reformation, is fundamentalist. And Christian Fundamentalists, radical Muslims, Hindu extremists, and fanatical Zionists are all the same - bloodthirsty lunatics. — Pat Robertson

I'm evangelical. — Pat Robertson

The problem we have in America is the systematic erosion of our religious values in an attempt by certain liberal groups to expunge our Christian heritage from the public square. — Pat Robertson

It is the Democratic Congress, the liberal-biased media and the homosexuals who want to destroy all Christians. — Pat Robertson

It may be a blessing in disguise ... Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. Haitians were originally under the heel of the French. You know, Napoleon the third, or whatever. And they got together and swore a pact to the devil. They said, we will serve you if you will get us free from the French. True story. And so, the devil said, okay it's a deal. Ever since they have been cursed by one thing after the other. — Pat Robertson

I'm a person that just likes to speak the truth, and I don't understand why in America it's such a big deal that we won't read the Koran and we won't look at history. — Pat Robertson

Of course there are peace-loving Muslims. — Pat Robertson

Many of those people involved in Adolf Hitler were Satanists, many were homosexuals - the two things seem to go together. — Pat Robertson

The truth is, the secular world isn't too enamored with Jesus. And they're not too enamored with someone who is leading people to Jesus. So if you're out there talking about people's sins, and you're talking about righteousness, you will get pushback. Jesus Himself did. The apostles did. I mean, there's persecution all up and down the line. — Pat Robertson

What I heard was that Bush is now positioned to have victory after victory. He'll have Social Security reform passed, that he'll have tax reform passed, that he'll have conservative judges on the courts. — Pat Robertson

We have enough votes to run the country. And when the people say, We've had enough, we are going to take over. — Pat Robertson

Pope John Paul II stands like a rock against all opposition in his clear enunciation of the foundational principles of the Christian faith. — Pat Robertson

I hate Alzheimer's. It is one of the most awful things because, here is a loved one, this is the woman or man that you have loved for 20, 30, 40 years, and suddenly, that person is gone. They're gone. They are gone. — Pat Robertson

I mean, George Bush is a man of prayer. He talks to the lord. He tries to get his direction from the lord. — Pat Robertson

I have friends who are Roman Catholics. I have friends who are Lutherans. — Pat Robertson

In 1998, I founded the American Center for Law and Justice, probably the premier public interest law firm in America defending the rights of believers. — Pat Robertson

The Antichrist is probably a Jew alive in Israel today — Pat Robertson

The wisdom of God's Word is quite clear on believers being unequally yoked. And marrying someone who is not a Christian - who is not a daily disciple of Christ - is being unequally yoked, regardless of what their beliefs might be. — Pat Robertson

I also pray for favor and His anointing on my life and ministry that I might have spiritual blessing when I minister to people. They're my principal prayers; I don't have a prayer list that I go down. — Pat Robertson

The Bible, and the peace that comes about through a continuous relationship with God are the best ways of knowing His will. — Pat Robertson

But there's no reason why we should abdicate our foundational principles because certain groups don't believe in them. You know, no majority should surrender its deeply held beliefs to those who don't believe in anything. — Pat Robertson

The goal of the Christian is to grow up into Christ. — Pat Robertson

God is going to judge righteously ... what did each one do in relation to what he or she knew to be right of wrong? — Pat Robertson

We want ... as soon as possible to see a majority of the Republican Party in the hands of pro-family Christians by 1996. — Pat Robertson

If he [Hugo Chavez] thinks we're trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it. — Pat Robertson

I believe that he [Jesus] is Lord of the government, and the church, and business and education, and, hopefully, one day, Lord of the press. I see him involved in everything. And that's why I don't want to stay just in the church, as such. I want the church to move into the world. — Pat Robertson

Homosexuals want to come into churches and disrupt church services and throw blood all around and try to give people AIDS and spit in the face of ministers. — Pat Robertson

My wife attends a Presbyterian church. — Pat Robertson

Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics? — Pat Robertson

I have a relatively good track record. — Pat Robertson

The Bible talks about everlasting fire and eternal darkness when it describes hell ... We do know that hell is real and forever. — Pat Robertson

The Islamic people, the Arabs, were the ones who captured Africans, put them in slavery, and sent them to America as slaves. Why would the people in America want to embrace the religion of slavers. — Pat Robertson

We don't need a "New Covenant." We need a new Congress. — Pat Robertson

We will see the presence of angels and we will see an intensification of miracles around the world. — Pat Robertson

The public education movement has also been an anti-Christian movement ... We can change education in America if you put Christian principles in and Christian pedagogy in. In three years, you would totally revolutionize education in America. — Pat Robertson

After the Christian majority takes control, pluralism will be seen as immoral and evil and the state will not permit anybody to practice it. — Pat Robertson

When I was in charge of the Christian Coalition I was available to mobilize grass roots support for somebody. — Pat Robertson

If Christian people work together, they can succeed during this decade in winning back control of the institutions that have been taken from them over the past 70 years. Expect confrontations that will be not only unpleasant but at times physically bloody. When it is over, I am convinced God's people will emerge victorious. — Pat Robertson

I'm a religious broadcaster. — Pat Robertson

I think George Bush is going to win in a walk. I really believe I'm hearing from the Lord it's going to be like a blowout election in 2004. — Pat Robertson

If you go all the way back to the days just following creation, men lived nine hundred years or more. — Pat Robertson

Are we a Christian nation now? It's doubtful. But did we start out as one? Without question. — Pat Robertson

You know, the Brits had a way of - running an empire. And I don't think America is comfortable with an empire. — Pat Robertson

The rebuilding of Iraq has been terrible. — Pat Robertson

It's the tyranny of an oligarchy that I'm concerned about. — Pat Robertson

I think we ought to close Halloween down. Do you want your children to dress up as witches? The Druids used to dress up like this when they were doing human sacrifice ... [Your children] are acting out Satanic rituals and participating in it, and don't even realize it. — Pat Robertson

The Katrina matter was terrible. — Pat Robertson

I cite in my book countless examples of the foundational documents of the colonial period in America and the writings of the leaders, that this was intended to be a Christian nation. — Pat Robertson

Well the basic thesis is that there's a god in heaven who is all powerful who wants to help people. And that - he will answer prayer, and does miraculous things in people's lives. And so I've documented some of these wonderful things. — Pat Robertson

Well - I was brought up as a Southern Baptist. — Pat Robertson

They have kept us in submission because they have talked about separation of church and state. There is no such thing in the Constitution. It's a lie of the left, and we're not going to take it anymore. — Pat Robertson

There are thirty to forty thousand left-wing professors in the United States who are racists, murderers, sexual deviants and supporters of Al-Qaeda. — Pat Robertson

Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. They were under the heel of the French ... and they got together and swore a pact to the devil. — Pat Robertson

When any civil government steps outside the mandate authorized by God Almighty, then that government does not have any further claim over its citizens. — Pat Robertson

Now you pray, and I'm going to pray for you that the Lord will speak to you. — Pat Robertson

The quickest way to recognize a cult is its treatment of Jesus. — Pat Robertson

Homosexuals are like Judas: They look good in a robe, and their kisses are legendary. — Pat Robertson

Just like what Nazi Germany did to the Jews, so liberal America is now doing to the evangelical Christians. It's no different. It is the same thing. It is happening all over again. It is the Democratic Congress, the liberal-based media and the homosexuals who want to destroy the Christians. Wholesale abuse and discrimination and the worst bigotry directed toward any group in America today. More terrible than anything suffered by any minority in history. — Pat Robertson

It's just impossible to ignore the activists in your party. These are the people who stuff the envelopes, and walk the precincts, and make the telephone calls, and do all the so-called grunt work that brings about a successful campaign. — Pat Robertson

I'd like to say to the good citizens of Dover: If there is a disaster in your area, don't turn to God, you just rejected him from your city. And don't wonder why he hasn't helped you when problems begin, if they begin. I'm not saying they will, but if they do, just remember, you just voted God out of your city. And if that's the case, don't ask for his help because he might not be there. — Pat Robertson

I would never say somebody had to vote for anybody. That would be terrible. I haven't said that. — Pat Robertson

You know, I don't know about this doctrine of assassination, but if [President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela] thinks we're trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it. It's a whole lot cheaper than starting a war. And I don't think any oil shipments will stop. [ ... ] We have the ability to take him out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability. We don't need another $200 billion war to get rid of one, you know, strong-arm dictator. It's a whole lot easier to have some of the covert operatives do the job and then get it over with. — Pat Robertson

The best way to know God's will is to be familiar with the Bible. — Pat Robertson

There are times in history where a particular doctrine becomes a symbol of a greater problem. — Pat Robertson

The average prison term for a convicted murderer in America is 6.5 years. The average tenure for a member of Congress is 13 years. We've got it backwards. We are giving early release to the wrong criminal class. — Pat Robertson

I think George Allen from Virginia was a distinguished governor, he's a distinguished senator and head of the Senatorial Campaign Committee and won some significant victories. He is a very attractive guy and would make a tremendous president. — Pat Robertson

I just think it's shocking how many of these young people wind up in prison and they get turned into hardcore criminals because they had a possession of a very small amount of controlled substance. — Pat Robertson

You say you're supposed to be nice to the Episcopalians and the Presbyterians and the Methodists and this, that, and the other thing. Nonsense. I don't have to be nice to the spirit of the Antichrist. I can love the people who hold false opinions but I don't have to be nice to them — Pat Robertson

I'm concerned about - the oppression of the poor. — Pat Robertson

Women should listen and learn quietly and submissively. I do not let women teach men or have authority over them. — Pat Robertson

If you read back in the Bible, the letter of the apostle Paul to the church of Thessalonia, he said that in the latter days before the end of the age that the Earth would be caught up in what he called the birth pangs of a new order. — Pat Robertson

Our goal, as Christians, is to dominate society — Pat Robertson

It is interesting, that termites don't build things, and the great builders of our nation almost to a man have been Christians, because Christians have the desire to build something. He is motivated by love of man and God, so he builds. The people who have come into (our) institutions (today) are primarily termites. They are into destroying institutions that have been built by Christians, whether it is universities, governments, our own traditions, that we have ... The termites are in charge now, and that is not the way it ought to be, and the time has arrived for a godly fumigation. — Pat Robertson

I have a zero tolerance for sanctimonious morons who try to scare people. — Pat Robertson

I know this is painful for the ladies to hear, but if you get married, you have accepted the headship of a man, your husband. Christ is the head of the household and the husband is the head of the wife, and that's the way it is, period. — Pat Robertson

People who hate God ... take it out on innocent people. — Pat Robertson

And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset. — Pat Robertson

How can there be peace when drunkards, drug dealers, communists, atheists, New Age worshipers of Satan, secular humanists, oppressive dictators, greedy money changers, revolutionary assassins, adulterers, and homosexuals are on top? — Pat Robertson

If you look over the course of a hundred years, I think the gradual erosion of the consensus that's held our country together is probably more serious than a few bearded terrorists who fly into buildings. — Pat Robertson

My personal feeling is that oral sex is against nature. — Pat Robertson

But if there's an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oligarchy and if we surrender our democracy to the tyranny of an oligarchy, we've made a terrible mistake. — Pat Robertson

The Democratic Party went far to the left, I think, and left some of us stranded on the beach, so we went to the Republican Party. — Pat Robertson

And these things are pretty much foundational: thou shall not kill, steal, bear false witness. All these things are embedded into the laws we enjoy in our nation. — Pat Robertson

You know what they do in San Francisco? Some in the gay community there, they want to get people. So if they got the stuff they'll have a ring, you shake hands and the ring's got a little thing where you cut your finger. Really. It's that kind of vicious stuff, which would be the equivalent of murder. — Pat Robertson

The key in terms of mental ability is chess. There's never been a woman Grand Master chess player. Once you get one, then I'll buy some of the feminism ... — Pat Robertson

I would warn Orlando that you're right in the way of some serious hurricanes, and I don't think I'd be waving those flags [gay pride flags] in God's face if I were you, This is not a message of hate , this is a message of redemption. But a condition like this will bring about the destruction of your nation. It'll bring about terrorist bombs; it'll bring earthquakes, tornadoes, and possibly a meteor. — Pat Robertson

You can imagine, if somebody's approaching retirement, and all of a sudden the funds that he or she is depending on is depleted by 50% or however many, it gives them a sinking feeling in the pit of their stomach. — Pat Robertson

The radical left is doing everything they can to destroy the moral fiber of America. They want to do away with the family. I am absolutely persuaded one of the reasons so many lesbians are at the forefront of the pro-choice movement is because being a mother is the unique
characteristic of womanhood, and these lesbians will never be mothers naturally, so they don't want anybody else to have that privilege either. — Pat Robertson

Becoming active is the key remedy for depression. — Pat Robertson

It is important for people to recognize that those who are working for the dissolution of our society have a spiritual agenda. They are not merely attempting to dismantle the historic cultural values of this nation and move us toward a homogenized world. They also want to destroy Christianity and Bible-based religion. It is a clear part of their agenda and they have already moved a long way in that direction. — Pat Robertson

They have no business administering government policies in a country that favors freedom and equality ... Can you imagine having the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini as defense minister, or Mahatma Gandhi as minister of health, education, and welfare The Hindu and Buddhist idea of karma and the Muslim idea of kismet, or fate condemn the poor and the disabled to their suffering ... It's the will of Allah. These beliefs are nothing but abject fatalism, and they would devastate the social gains this nation has made if they were ever put into practice. — Pat Robertson