T. D. Jakes Quotes
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Put the greatest emphasis on what's in you; your knowledge, your wisdom, your inner strength, your character, your tenacity and people will look through the box and always walk away with the product.
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I wasn't looking out, I was looking in. I knew something was in me, I just wasn't sure how valuable it was.
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Surround yourself with people whose definition of you is not based on your history, but your destiny.
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Surround yourself with those who won’t compete but will revel in your success and see your ascent as a reflection of their own possibilities.
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If you don’t find a way to love a flawed person, secretly you’re teaching yourself that you are not lovable because of your flaws.
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Instilling values of faith at an early age is important. Listening them through adolescence comes more important than teaching because if you haven't instilled in them at early ages now it's time to listen and get your report card and let them find their way and then as an adult let them stand aside.
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There’s something you learn from helping other people with their dreams that prepares you for your own.
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No matter where you are in life right now, know this: God put you on this earth to fulfill the promise He has predestined for your life.
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Worship, from the Latin word meaning "worth-ship", is where we express God's worth to us in our lives.
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The traditional churches are having to transition into new methodologies and new ways of reaching people and they are starting to understand that and looking for ways they can increase their relevance to the contemporary society.
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I would tell your generation, wherever you are on the totem poll - whether you're halfway there or at the bottom, don't despise small beginnings; small beginnings get you ready for great things.
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Besides, Jesus was a rich man. He had to have been, in order to have supported his disciples and their families during his ministry.
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When you leave the familiar and enter the unknown, your fear becomes refined by experience and hammered into tools of survival on the anvil of anxiety.
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Some young ladies are so starved for male approval that what should be a normal attraction to men is accelerated into an obsessive need for male affirmation. Tragically, these dear ladies allow themselves to be devoured in the arms of men who have neither regard not respect for them as people.
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Silence isn't golden and it surely doesn't mean consent, so start practicing the art of communication.
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If you're gifted enough, nappy hair, gap teeth, acne face - I don't care what it is, greatness will shine through anything!
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I was looking for excellence in any color or gender it comes in. Some of my top people are African American but not all of them.
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I think the amazing thing about gospel music is that not only does it lift up the death and resurrection of our Lord, which is consistent with the Gospel, but it is uniquely communicated depending upon the generation.
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I think that it's unfortunate that we have allowed politics to use theology to hit areas that we sincerely want to support. But I think that they are using us to some degree because they are using what concerns us to isolate us.
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The real harvest of life is the outworking of the internal. If there's nothing in there, there's nothing to work out.
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Too many people want the appearance of winning rather than the practices and hard work that create a true champion.
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When you're living by instinct, then you will naturally enhance everything and everyone around you. In other words, success will come naturally! When both your intellect and instincts are aligned, then producing the fruits of your labors brings satisfaction beyond measure.
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I'll give you some symptoms of a sign that your faith is deteriorating-whenever you face all of your problems and you trust only your plans to get you out-it is a sign that your faith is deteriorating.
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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.