I started my ministry when I was 19, I was pastoring at 22 and I got married when I was 24, so I was building at such a young age and that fight, that dream and tenacity is still in me.
T. D. JAKESI think it’s important that when you’re bringing something to the table that you’re sure has value, that you don’t diminish yourself just so that you can have an opportunity.
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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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If you have the capacity to be more than one thing , do everything that’s inside of you.
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We should still pray. We have no other authority but to pray.
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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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You shouldn’t shoot at every opportunity that passes by.
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Basic Instincts It’s the way mother birds build nests, and build them high enough to elude
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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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I’m not particularly political. I’m not particularly denominational. I’m not worried about any of that.
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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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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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The greater the battle – the greater the spoils.
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Eagles fly where lesser birds cannot fly, so eagles can do what lesser birds cannot do.
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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 is nothing I’m any more passionate than empowering the next generation.
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The enemy doesn’t care how many days you live as long as you don’t live in the days you have.
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