T. D. Jakes Quotes
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The dream God gives you guarantees, no matter what it looks like now, when it’s all over, your dream will come to pass.
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It's the gymnasium of life where you get the workout, the resistance, and you find out things about yourself that you didn't know.
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The world is a university and everyone in it is a teacher. Make sure when you wake up in the morning you go to school.
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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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It is possible for you to get a grip on the thing that used to have a grip on you. And instead of it controlling you - you are now controlling it.
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Sometimes what makes us insecure and vulnerable becomes the fuel we need to be overachievers. The antidote for a snakebite is made from the poison, and the thing that made you go backward is the same force that will push you forward.
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Others can inspire you, but ultimately the only thing that empowers you is what lies within you and learning how to better utilize what you’ve been given.
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When my father died, I had a real experience with Christ, a real conversion with Christ and I had it in a Oneness church.
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My father was a Methodist and my mother was a Baptist.
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We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.
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It is important to remember that for every person, there will be a problem. Even more importantly, for every problem, our God has a prescription!
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I think, when we start dealing with heaven or hell issues, what we really need to gravitate toward is that man is an eternal spirit. And if you believe that he is an eternal spirit then all it does, it abandons the body.
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I think if we don't fix the economy and if we don't fix foreign policy, we won't have the luxury of dealing with domestic issues that may be important to Christians but we have to understand that in my view, we've taken our eyes off the ball a bit.
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I know whatever God means for me to have He'll give it to me. And if it takes too much sweat I don't need it.
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There are no college courses to build up self-esteem or high school or elementary school. If you don't get those values at a early age, nurtured in your home, you don't get them.
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There may be challenges or crosses that may have delayed your goals temporarily, but now it’s time to move forward.
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You cannot have a private relationship in a public arena. You must look to an inner circle of people who really know you. Don't expect to have that kind of intimate relationship with people who only know you publicly. Do not seek to be understood by the world.
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All over this nation, all over this world there are people going to church today and they say they are believers, but until you can take what you've been taught and bring it to the place you gave up - you will never be the radical believer that you need to be for the times in which we live.
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The critic is a prisoner to his own experiences and perspectives, erroneously believing his limited experiences are the sum of all truth
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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.
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A whole woman will always attract a whole man. And when they touch, they will fuse to create a whole marriage. Ultimately, when the time is right, they will produce whole children.
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Ya'll don't hear what I'm preaching. I'm preaching so good I'm about to 'Amen' myself! Oh!...Oh God! I'm preaching good! Hallelujah!
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Really, when you get down to racism, in or out of the church, it's a heart issue. It's not a head issue. When we actually get to experience each other's ministry, and each other's struggle, and each other's pain, there's a much greater sensitivity.
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If you can learn to love the imperfect people in your family then it's possible that someone can learn to love a imperfect you.