Marjoe Gortner famous quotes

If you're going to get into big time religion, these are the games you have to play. You go into it as a business and you work it as a business.
-- Marjoe Gortner

#Games #Play #Atheism

It's the same at a rock-and-roll concert. You have an opening number with a strong entrance; then you go through a lot of the old standards, building up to your hit song at the end.
-- Marjoe Gortner

#Song #Strong #Rocks

It was my duty to give them the best show possible. Say you've got a timid little preacher in North Carolina or somewhere. He'll bring in visiting evangelists to keep his church going. We'd come in and hit the crowd up and we were superstars. It's the charisma of the evangelist that the audience believes in and comes to see.
-- Marjoe Gortner

#Believe #Giving #Atheism

As a preacher, I'm working with the crowd, watching the crowd, trying to bring them to that high point at a certain time in the evening. I let everything build up to that moment when they're all in ecstasy. The crowd builds up and you have to watch it that you don't stop it. You start off saying you've heard that tonight's going to be a great night; then you begin the whole pitch and keep it rolling.
-- Marjoe Gortner

#Night #Atheism #Trying

I really don't put it down. I never have. It's just that I analyze it and look at it from a very rational point of view. I don't see it as coming from God and say that at a certain point the Holy Spirit zaps you with a super whammy on the head and you've "gone for tongues" and there is it. Tongues is a process that people build up to. Then, as you start to do something, just as when you practice the scales on the piano, you get better at it.
-- Marjoe Gortner

#Views #Practice #Piano

If the English language had been properly organized ... then there would be a word which meant both 'he' and 'she', and I could write, 'If John or Mary comes heesh will want to play tennis', which would save a lot of trouble.

If you want to know about the Sixties, play the music of The Beatles.

The thing about travelling is that you work hard and play hard, but you can do all those things without your parents knowing.

I'm not an athiest. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.

Religions survive mainly because they brainwash the young.

If the assertion that there is a god is nonsensical, then the atheist's assertion that there is no god is equally nonsensical, since it is only a significant proposition that can be significantly contradicted.

If 'god' is a metaphysical term, then it cannot be even probable that a god exists. For to say that 'God exists' is to make a metaphysical utterance which cannot be either true or false. And by the same criterion, no sentence which purports to describe the nature of a transcendent god can possess any literal significance.

I have neither time nor disposition to enter into discussion with the Friend, and end this occasion by suggesting for her consideration the question whether, if it be true that the Lord has appointed me to do the work she has indicated, it is not probable that he would have communicated knowledge of the fact to me as well as to her.

What good fortune for those in power that people do not think.

I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator.