Daily Inspiration Quote by Kathie Lee Gifford

“No bigger stars” lands like a backstage whisper about a movement that swore it wasn’t about show business. Kathie Lee Gifford is pointing at a specific late-’70s and ’80s phenomenon: televangelism’s reinvention of religion as broadcast spectacle, complete with branding, merch, and the kind of personality-driven loyalty usually reserved for pop idols. By calling the Bakkers “stars,” she doesn’t just describe their visibility; she diagnoses the engine of the “new evangelism” itself, where charisma and camera fluency functioned as theology’s delivery system.

The intent is twofold: to mark the Bakkers’ dominance and to frame that dominance as culturally legible, even to people who never set foot in PTL’s orbit. “New evangelism” is a telling phrase because it suggests innovation and modernization, but the subtext is that the novelty wasn’t spiritual doctrine so much as media strategy. Faith becomes a format. Salvation becomes a pitch.

Coming from an entertainer, the line carries an extra charge: it quietly collapses the distance between the pulpit and the studio. Gifford’s vantage point implies familiarity with the machinery of fame, which makes the observation feel less like moralizing and more like insider realism. It also brushes against the later scandal narrative without naming it: when religious authority is built like celebrity, it inherits celebrity’s vulnerabilities - appetite, access, and the eventual reckoning. The quote works because it’s crisp, almost casual, while smuggling in an indictment of a whole era’s willingness to confuse anointing with airtime.