T. D. Jakes Quotes
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I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground.
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It's better to wait for something that respects you than to go in so low that it diminishes what you've worked for.
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We have a tendency to want the other person to be a finished product while we give ourselves the grace to evolve.
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Resist your fear; fear will never lead to you a positive end. Go for your faith and what you believe.
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A lot of can't deal with life because they lack the patience to become who they want to be.... Everything happens by process. If you don't go through the process to get it, you don't have the power to keep it.
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If you think down, you will go down. If you think up, you will go up. You’ll always travel in the direction of your thinking.
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It is your passion that empowers you to be able to do that thing you were created to do.
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We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it's absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive.
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There is nothing I'm any more passionate than empowering the next generation.
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I don't dislike anybody. I love everybody.
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I don't think that you can let the storms of life overwhelm you. When you do that, you are no better than the craziness that caused you to be under attack.
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What you can do is embrace what you have right now and to allow it to fill the vacancies of what you didn't get yesterday.
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I think most people who get into their 50s reassess what made sense and what didn't make sense.
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One of the things about my ministry is that I have never branded myself as being above the people or superior to people.
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But I think my mistakes became the chemistry for my miracles. I think that my tests became my testimonies.
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I think the first step is to understand that forgiveness does not exonerate the perpetrator. Forgiveness liberates the victim. It's a gift you give yourself.
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Here is the amazing thing about Easter; the Resurrection Sunday for Christians is this, that Christ in the dying moments on the cross gives us the greatest illustration of forgiveness possible.
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When you make a decision to forgive it's a decision that you have to make intellectually.
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I'm not particularly political. I'm not particularly denominational. I'm not worried about any of that.
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I raised five children. They all have different personalities. All of them have different issues, different levels of success. That was a learning experience for me.
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I think it is important that we rebuild an atmosphere of forgiveness and civility in every aspect of our lives.
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I actually grew up playing the piano in the church and was deeply involved in music ministry.
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Children are not unforgiving. You can punish them and they will hug you in a few minutes.
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I want to congratulate all the men out there who are working diligently to be good fathers whether they are stepfathers, or biological fathers or just spiritual fathers.