Bakker Quotes & Sayings

Well, these tattoos aren't really rebellion. These tattoos are all tattoos I've had since I have been a pastor. — Jay Bakker

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

For all things there is a toll. We pay in breaths, and our purse is soon empty. — R. Scott Bakker

I've been disappointed by so many movie stars that I've seen, and they go out and they don't do it up, you know. And they don't - I just get so disappointed. — Tammy Faye Bakker

He looked like a bored boy deciding whether to poke a dead fish. — R. Scott Bakker

There's times when I just have to quit thinking ... and the only way I can quit thinking is by shopping. — Tammy Faye Bakker

Every single day, I get up and I say, 'I am going to live and not die.' — Tammy Faye Bakker

Some events mark us so deeply that they find more force of presence in their aftermath than in their occurrence. — R. Scott Bakker

Most of you are so young you don't know who I am, and that's good. — Jim Bakker

A strange coldness had settled upon Achamian, the monolithic selfishness of which only children and madmen are sometimes capable. — R. Scott Bakker

Inveterate creationists, then or now, never allow their faith to fall victim to facts. — Robert T. Bakker

Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose. — Tammy Faye Bakker

Desperation glares in all Men, but it burns as a beacon when it takes a King for tinder. A — R. Scott Bakker

Also, while I was at Yale, I had a job teaching kids at the museum. — Robert T. Bakker

When a man possesses the innocence of a child, we call him a fool.
When a child possesses the cunning of a man, we call him an abomination. As with love, knowledge has its seasons. — R. Scott Bakker

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

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

Better blind in Hell than speechless in Heaven. - — R. Scott Bakker

I'm a real simple person. I believe that the Bible means what it says, and says what it means. — Tammy Faye Bakker

I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim. — Tammy Faye Bakker

Though all men be equally frail before the world, the differences between them are terrifying. — R. Scott Bakker

Any fool can see the limits of seeing, but not even the wisest know the limits of knowing. Thus is ignorance rendered invisible, and are all Men made fools. — R. Scott Bakker

I also got a chance to go to the American Museum in New York, which helped my interest. — Robert T. Bakker

Above all the mighty detest change. — R. Scott Bakker

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

To be ignorant and to be deceived are two different things. To be ignorant is to be a slave of the world. To be deceived is to be the slave of another man. The question will always be: Why, when all men are ignorant, and therefore already slaves, does this latter slavery sting us so? — R. Scott Bakker

No soul moves alone through the world, Leweth. Our every thought stems from the thoughts of others. Our every word is but a repetition of world spoken before. Every time we listen, we allow the movements of another should to carry our own ... NO one's soul moves alone, Leweth. When one love dies, on must learn to love another. — R. Scott Bakker

I think - there's always going to be a percentage of people who maybe aren't as good as others. — Jim Bakker

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

A cut scarred where a caress faded away. — R. Scott Bakker

Honey, I am going to my grave with my eyelashes and my makeup on. — Tammy Faye Bakker

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

Jim Bakker is an extremely talented preacher, if he would just get it together. — Jessica Hahn

Dreams drawn from the sheath. — R. Scott Bakker

One researcher just determined that African and Indian elephants make each other sick. When a new animal or plant is introduced to a habitat bad things happen. The biggest danger to native wildlife is foreign wildlife. — Robert T. Bakker

The Knock at the Door by Ina Boudier-Bakker. — Anne Frank

It's the concert of knowledge and ignorance that underwrites our decisions. — R. Scott Bakker

Jim Bakker ripped off the bedspread and said, my wife doesn't make me feel like a man anymore. — Jessica Hahn

Say what you will about Leona Helmsley, when it comes to standing trial, she's twice the man Jim Bakker is. — David Letterman

Exhaustion has a way of parting the veils between men, not so much because the effort of censoring their words exceeds them, but because weariness is the foe of volatility. Oft times insults that would pierce the wakeful simply thud against the sleepless and fatigued. — R. Scott Bakker

You know nothing of war. War is dark. Black as pitch. It is not a God. It does not laugh or weep. It rewards neither skill nor daring. It is not a trial of souls, not the measure of wills. Even less is it a tool, a means to some womanish end. It is merely the place where the iron bones of the earth meet the hollow bones of men and break them. — R. Scott Bakker

This is the problem of all great revelations: their significance so often exceeds the frame of our comprehension. We understand only after, always after. Not simply when it is too late, but precisely because it is too late. — R. Scott Bakker

Where no paths exist, a man strays only when he misses his destination. There is no crime, no transgression, no sin save foolishness or incompetence, and no obscenity save the tyranny of custom. — R. Scott Bakker

I take Him shopping with me. I say, OK, Jesus, help me find a bargain. — Tammy Faye Bakker

I love museums more than any other institution the human race has invented. Museum people are always overworked and underpaid, and they all deserve sainthood, every one. — Robert T. Bakker

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

I always say shopping is cheaper than a psychiatrist. — Tammy Faye Bakker

Honey, God loves everybody. It's human beings who mess things up. — Tammy Faye Bakker

So you can't lose serving God, and that all things work together for good. — Jim Bakker

As I see with Lori's testimony, you say what good could come out of all these abortions and all what she's been through? But she has been a part of a new Bible for women, a mentoring Bible. — Jim Bakker

He had despised the sorcerer, thinking him one of those mewling souls who forever groaned beneath burdens of their own manufacture. — R. Scott Bakker

You don't have to be dowdy to be a Christian. — Tammy Faye Bakker

They've all been through bad things. So bad things happen to people. They happen to all the great men of God. — Jim Bakker

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

We believe that this time of transition will make for a more dynamic Revolution Church, and will help us focus and expand our scope and mission. — Jay Bakker

What bothers me is that Jim Bakker lies. Jim Bakker knows for a fact that I was virgin. — Jessica Hahn

Grace will follow us even when we are going the wrong way — Ricky Maye

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

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

I don't think God cares what you put in your body or on your body. — Tammy Faye Bakker

Stegosaurus was common only on well drained, dry soil. — Robert T. Bakker

Oh, I was never a businessman. I was a visionary, a dreamer. — Jim Bakker

Land bridges were everywhere during the extinction, many species were spreading, and there were many diseases. — Robert T. Bakker

Dinosaurs are the best way to teach kids, and adults, the immensity of geologic time. — Robert T. Bakker

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

Most men would rather die in deception than live in uncertainty. — R. Scott Bakker

You know, I try not to look back, because looking forward is so much better than looking backward. — Jim Bakker

The evidence is overwhelming that birds are dinosaurs. — Robert T. Bakker

You can't fake it when you're alone with God, you know. — Jim Bakker

Masses of warring men animated the horizon, crashing into stubborn ranks, churning in melee. The air didn't so much thunder as hiss with the sound of distant battle, like a sea heard through a conch shell, Martemus thought - an angry sea. Winded, he watched the first of Conphas's assassins stride up behind Prince Kellhus, raise his short-sword ...
There was an impossible moment - a sharp intake of breath.
The Prophet simply turned and caught the descending blade between his thumb and forefinger. "No," he said, then swept around, knocking the man to the turf with an unbelievable kick. Somehow the assassin's sword found its way into his left hand. Still crouched, the Prophet drove it down through the assassin's throat, nailing him to the turf.
A mere heartbeat had passed. — R. Scott Bakker

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

There was such a difference, he thought, between the beauty that illuminated, and the beauty that was illuminated. — R. Scott Bakker

Sleep, when deep enough, is indistinguishable from vigilance. — R. Scott Bakker

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

Suffer not a whore to live, for she maketh a pit of her womb. — R. Scott Bakker

If soot stains your tunic, dye it black. This is vengeance. — R. Scott Bakker

The vulgar think the God by analogy to man and so worship Him in the form of the Gods. The learned think the God by analogy to principles and so worship Him in the form of Love or Truth. But the wises think the God not at all. They know that thought, which is finite, can only do violence to the God, who is infinite. It is enough, they say, that the God thinks them. — R. Scott Bakker

At Harvard I was in charge of the comparative anatomy labs. — Robert T. Bakker

Where hard life makes some maudlin to the point of weeping at mere memory, it grants others a curious immunity to suffering. Like the slaves who work the charcoal pits, their skin grows hardened to the pinch of fire and coals, insensible to burning things. — R. Scott Bakker

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

I'm in the hands of Jesus. — Tammy Faye Bakker

Like a stern father, war shames men into hating their childhood games. — R. Scott Bakker

When we complain, we remain. When we whine, we stay behind. When we praise, we raise. — Jim Bakker

All men are frauds. Some, the wise, fool only others. Others, the foolish, fool only themselves. And a rare few fool both others and themselves - they are the rulers of Men — R. Scott Bakker

You could arm-wrestle with a T. rex and win, but you shouldn't because it only makes them mad. — Robert T. Bakker

And God knows I needed to be forgiven. So I had to forgive everybody. And then God - as I read in the word, you're supposed to pray for your enemies. Try that one on. — Jim Bakker

Sit with a merchant or sit with a beggar, and it'll always be the beggar who buys your first drink. — R. Scott Bakker

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

Love is lust made meaningful. Hope is hunger made human. — R. Scott Bakker

Sheltered by his caste, Sarcellus had not, as the impoverished must, made fear the pivot of his passions. As a result he possessed an immovable self-assurance. He felt. He acted. He judged. The fear of being wrong that so characterized Achamian simply did not exist for Cutias Sarcellus. Where Achamian was ignorant of the answers, Sarcellus was ignorant of the questions. No certitude, she thought, could be greater. — R. Scott Bakker

The more I studied the Bible, however, I had to admit that the prosperity message did not line up with the tenor of Scripture. My heart was crushd to think that I led so many people astray. I was appalled that I could have been so wrong, and I was deeply grateful that God had not struck me dead as a false prophet. — Jim Bakker

Traditional dinosaur theory is full of short circuits. Like the antiquated wiring in an old house, the details sputter and burn out when specific parts are tested. — Robert T. Bakker

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

Saying 'I could have done more,' Zin, is what marks a man as a man and not a God. — R. Scott Bakker

I sorrowfully acknowledge that seven years ago ... I was wickedly manipulated by treacherous former friends and colleagues who victimized me with the aid of a female confederate. They conspired to betray me into a sexual encounter at a time of great stress in my marital life ... I was set up as part of a scheme to co-opt me and obtain some advantage for themselves over me in connection with their hope for position in the ministry. — Jim Bakker

God doesn't want his people to go second-class. — Jim Bakker

Complexity begets ambiguity, which yields in all ways to prejudice and avarice. Complication does not so much defeat Men as arm them with fancy. — R. Scott Bakker

I am definitely questioning the atonement and trying to discover how we can see it in a different way. We've got this image of God who needs some sort of flesh, some sort of blood, that needs some sort of vengeance to pay for sin. My experience of a loving God who's asked me to love my enemies - this isn't a God that demands something before you are accepted. I think Jesus died because Jesus was inclusive. God is inclusive. I think that the idea of God somehow being separated from us was more man's idea. — Jay Bakker

Conviction, no matter how narcotic its depth, simply did not make true. — R. Scott Bakker

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