Daily Inspiration Quote by Jim Bakker

A neat little absolution machine disguised as empathy. Bakker’s line doesn’t just acknowledge suffering; it rebrands it. By flattening catastrophe into a universal law - “bad things happen to people” - he drains any particular “bad thing” of its moral specifics: who caused it, who benefited, who should be held accountable. It’s a rhetorical rinse cycle that turns scandal, consequences, and pattern into weather.

The crucial move is the pivot to sanctification: “They happen to all the great men of God.” That phrase smuggles in a hierarchy. If hardship is proof of holiness, then criticism becomes persecution and punishment becomes a badge. Bakker isn’t arguing innocence so much as upgrading the category: from flawed celebrity preacher to embattled biblical archetype. The listener is invited to see a familiar script - Job, David, Paul - and cast Bakker (or whoever he’s defending) as the protagonist. Once you accept that casting, doubt starts to feel like betrayal.

As a celebrity religious figure with a long public history of scandal and comeback attempts, Bakker’s context matters. Televangelism thrives on testimony: the fall, the redemption, the audience’s emotional investment in the “restored” messenger. This quote is built to keep that engine running. It asks followers to interpret reputational damage as spiritual warfare and to treat “great men” as a special class whose sins are merely “bad things” that happened to them. The subtext is protective: don’t interrogate, don’t litigate, don’t leave. Stay inside the story where suffering always means you’re chosen.