Jerry Falwell Quotes

I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.

It seems that entertainment is what most excites us and what we value above everything else.

Booze, broads and bullshit. If you got all that, what else do you need?

Most media leaders are liberal and much of their programming reflects anti-Christian sentiment.

Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short, is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.

There are worse ways to die than warm and drunk.

In truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.

Looking at the media today, I'm quite ashamed of myself, of things I've participated in. Everything is marketed to sex and gossip and it's just a shame that those are the things at the forefront, on people's minds, those are the things that make you popular, what you have on or how little you have on and it has nothing to do with music, nothing to do with sports it has nothing to do with the things so many communities put their faith in. It's just a sad place to be.

I hate to speak for the whole society, but I will. I'm a journalist, it's my job. There's been something of a reaction against political correctness. Needless to say, the government hasn't caught up yet.

Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth

I know that I am essentially a sort of fun-loving person who really just wants to sit around and eat pies.

It would be pleasant to be drunk.

When we submit to God's plans, we can trust our desires. Our assignment is found at the intersection of God's plan and our pleasures.

If it's not fun, I'm not going to do it.

God, the Master Weaver. He stretches the yarn and intertwines the colors, the ragged twine with the velvet strings, the pains with the pleasures. Nothing escapes his reach.

Basketball was always a game to me. One of the greatest things in life for me was to be able to play what I loved dearly and get paid for it. So it was always a game to me and that's how I perceived everything.

The pleasure we hold in esteem for the course of our lives ought to have a greater share of our time dedicated to it; we should refuse no occasion nor omit any opportunity of drinking, and always have it in our minds.

Have we come to the point where it is now considered a secular blasphemy to acknowledge the name of God at all?

Pleasure is by much the most laborious trade I know, especially for those who have not a vocation to it.

I'm a person who is only invested in the pleasures and enjoyments of life. All the rest is left to the men. I've always remained what you might call "feminine" about the whole [work] thing.

Death is half disarmed when the pleasures and interests of the flesh are first denied.

I'm a Christian, but I'm not a puritan. I believe in pleasure and orgiastic pleasure has its place, intellectual pleasure has its place, social pleasure has its place, televisual pleasure has its place [in life].

Nowadays, truth is the greatest news. The mass media are the wholesalers, the peer groups, the retailers of the communications industry.

America is the first culture in jeopardy of amusing itself to death.

Singing a song, playing sports - anything that entertains, that takes people away from their own problems, is good.