Kirk Cameron Quotes

“Think of someone you know who's not saved but you may be afraid to share the Gospel with that person. I've found a way that's radically effective in training people to share the Gospel.”

— Kirk Cameron

“In this town you can be a wife-beating, manic-depressive crack-head and everyone opens their arms to you. They say, "Hey, pal, don't worry about it. We'll get you into recovery. It's all part of the journey." But if you become a born-again Christian and love Jesus Christ and want to share that with other people, they say, "You've committed the unpardonable sin.”

— Kirk Cameron

“It is my goal to love everyone. I hate no one. Regardless of their race, religion, their proclivities, the desire of their heart and how they want to live their life and the decisions that they make. I can even respect people's decisions and lifestyle choices just as I hope they have the courtesy to respect my decisions and my choices.”

— Kirk Cameron

If my kids came to me and said, 'I'm gay,' I'd say, 'Son, I love you.' That's never at stake. Never, never, never at stake.

— Kirk Cameron

“Every candle that gets lit in the dark room must feel a little rejection from the darkness around it, but the last thing I want from those who hold a different world view to me is to accept me.”

— Kirk Cameron

“What I would say is Jesus came to save lost sinners like you and me, and if Jesus Christ has a burning desire to seek and save the lost, then you should, too, if Christ is living within you. If you don't have a concern for the lost, then I am concerned about your salvation because the Holy Spirit wants the lost to come to Christ.”

— Kirk Cameron

Marriage was defined by God a long time ago. Marriage is almost as old as dirt, and it was defined in the garden between Adam and Eve - one man, one woman for life till death do you part. So I would never attempt to try to redefine marriage. And I don't think anyone else should either.

— Kirk Cameron

“I'm not perfect in my walk but I want to do the right thing.”

— Kirk Cameron

“The church as a whole has strayed quite far from biblical evangelism; that is, sharing the Gospel in the way that Jesus did, the way the Apostle Paul did, and the rest of the disciples and prophets in Scripture.”

— Kirk Cameron

“You really need to decide, if you're an actor in Hollywood, whether you want to be faithful to the Lord or you want to be popular, because chances are you're not going to be both.”

— Kirk Cameron

“I could see that it was God's forgiveness and His mercy that I needed, and that was provided through Christ on the Cross for those who will receive Him as Lord and Savior. That is how I came to Christ.”

— Kirk Cameron

“I learned that the problems that we have are not solved by blaming somebody else, and that our hope is not in who governs us as a nation. It's not in Mitt Romney or Barack Obama or Ron Paul. Our hope is in the power of God and his gospel working in the hearts of people.”

— Kirk Cameron

“God makes it really clear that society and civilization is really held together by the glue of families ... When a man and a woman come together and say 'I do,' they are committing for a lifetime to love each other and to model what love is and what forgiveness is and what joy is to their kids.”

— Kirk Cameron

If America is a ship, it looks a lot like it's sinking - financially, morally, spiritually. It's frightening.

— Kirk Cameron

What can separate us from the love of God? Not life, not death, nothing in the present, nothing in the future. Not angels, not demons nothing is able to stand between us and his loving plans because you can't stop them.

— Kirk Cameron

“Faith in God ... produces character; character will produce courage, courage to face the challenges of the day.”

— Kirk Cameron

“I think controversy is not always a bad thing. Jesus was controversial. It's through controversy that people often wake up and smell the coffee and say, 'What's going on here? Do we need to rethink something here?'”

— Kirk Cameron

“We all have our convictions formed by different things, and mine are informed by my faith, they're informed by the Word of God, and I found that to be an anchor for me, a compass and a guide for me. When people start bullying one another and calling each other names for those different convictions, then I think you get into problems.”

— Kirk Cameron

Culture changes because of musicians and actors and actresses. There's a responsibility there. You may ignore the responsibility. You may choose to be a bad role model. But, you are a role model nonetheless.

— Kirk Cameron

“Atheism has been on the rise for years now, and the Bible of the atheists is 'The Origin of Species.'”

— Kirk Cameron

“People want to be liked by other people, so they adopt other people's standards, but for me, my standard had always been true.”

— Kirk Cameron

“To really understand what love is, you've kinda got to dig down deeper than just how you feel at the moment.”

— Kirk Cameron

Once I realized the emptiness of life apart from knowing God, when I embraced God and the truth of the gospel and the truth of the Bible, it was a no-brainer decision to see that that was a treasure that was infinitely more valuable than some sort of an atheistic Hollywood party life.

— Kirk Cameron

“If my kid came to me and said 'I'm gay,' I'd say, 'Son, I love you.'”

— Kirk Cameron

For me, my family and my faith have been what's really been my anchor, and grounding me, and helping me navigate through a lot of the things that really destroy marriages in Hollywood, and in your own personal integrity.

— Kirk Cameron

“I love the ideas of looking back to historical heroes to give us inspiration on how we can be today's heroes to move forward in the future. So guys like ... William Bradford and William Wallace, the Bravehearts, the Patriots, the Pilgrims. There are so many of those people throughout history ... whose stories have just never been told.”

— Kirk Cameron

“For so many years, I've been an actor acting in other people's movies, and in 'Unstoppable,' I'm producing it, and I have an opportunity to create some of that excitement with style and form and different color templates and things like that. So, as an artist, it's really exciting.”

— Kirk Cameron

Everywhere I go, everyone I talk with, everyone I think about - their salvation is what is on my mind. I love fellowship with Christians, but I can't become preoccupied with the pleasure of fellowship when I know that sinners are sinking into hell.

— Kirk Cameron

“America is a beacon of hope for the world. And yet we are in so much trouble.”

— Kirk Cameron

“I sometimes found myself more comfortable around my TV family than I did with my own parents and sister.”

— Kirk Cameron

“If you take Darwin's theory and extend it to its logical end, it can be used to justify a number of very horrendous things.”

— Kirk Cameron

That pains me in my heart to think that someone who is gay would think that I don't love them and care about them.

— Kirk Cameron

“That's what a family is: a whole bunch of people coming together.”

— Kirk Cameron

“The history of the world is the story of people getting off track.”

— Kirk Cameron

“Professor Hawking is heralded as 'the genius of Britain,' yet he believes in the scientific impossibility that nothing created everything and that life sprang from non-life. Why should anyone believe Mr. Hawking's writings if he cannot provide evidence for his unscientific belief that out of nothing, everything came?”

— Kirk Cameron

“I love to be creative and to put flesh onto the ideas that are inside of me. And there are not that many great programs that are coming out through Hollywood, and I'm tired of waiting around for someone to hand me a good script, so I'm going to go and produce something.”

— Kirk Cameron

“I'm not the religious-conspiracy-theorist go-to guy, particularly. But I think it's really kind of silly to try to equate birds falling out of the sky with some kind of an end-times theory.”

— Kirk Cameron

“If the anti-Christian agenda will say, 'Here's your identity, you're an evolved amoeba who ought to just go do whatever you want and don't let anybody tell you different,' then they can get you to throw your faith, your character, your courage, and your liberty right out the window.”

— Kirk Cameron

The biblical method of change begins in the heart of man with the Gospel. It transforms the mind of man and gradually works its way out. And it builds a nation from the bottom up.

— Kirk Cameron

“Why do people hate God? ... One, they hate the moral standard. Two, they hate the way he's transforming the world even in the midst of suffering and tragedy.”

— Kirk Cameron

“As a father of six kids and as a man who's been transformed by the power of the gospel, I would never just let my kids flounder and just sort of try to figure out their own way through life when I know that I've got the best guide on the planet - God and His word.”

— Kirk Cameron

“My default position is not to be an actor. My default position is to be a follower of Jesus Christ. If that means I continue in acting, great! I'd love that. But if it means I need to change professions someday because I can't provide for my family, well, that's what I need to do.”

— Kirk Cameron

“My kids haven't watched one episode of 'Growing Pains'. I'll tell you why. When our kids were little, we never wanted Mommy or Daddy to be the celebrity mom or dad to our kids.”

— Kirk Cameron

“My wife - I married my onscreen girlfriend from 'Growing Pains', Mike Seaver's girlfriend, and we've been married for 17 years - so marriage is very important to us.”

— Kirk Cameron

“Ten out of ten people die. You start thinking about that and it really makes you start to ask the big questions: Where did I come from? Where am I going when I die? What happens when we step out of here? What's out there?”

— Kirk Cameron

God speaks with authority on every subject including marriage and His advice trumps Oprah's every time.

— Kirk Cameron

“If you had the cure to cancer wouldn't you share it? .. You have the cure to death .. get out there and share it.”

— Kirk Cameron

“To say anything negative about Stephen Hawking is like bullying a blind man. He has an unfair disadvantage, and that gives him a free pass on some of his absurd ideas.”

— Kirk Cameron

“What if marriage is really about making us more like Christ, not so much about making us happy?”

— Kirk Cameron

“We know that God disciplines His children, and that testing, suffering, and persecution come to us from Heaven to stretch, grow, and mature us into the men and women God intends to make us ... If we keep this in mind when hard times fall, it can be a real source of joy in the fire ...”

— Kirk Cameron