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.
T. D. JAKESThe 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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A church that focuses on the external has lost its passion for souls.
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So though there are many things I would have done differently, I submit to God’s sovereignty and His purpose in my life and I thank Him that He brought me the way He brought me and gave me what He gave me when He thought I could handle it.
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Eagles fly where lesser birds cannot fly, so eagles can do what lesser birds cannot do.
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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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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 grew up in hospitals. My father was sick. So I grew up in hospitals from the age of 10. Got to see a lot of suffering.
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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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I think the thing that people do wrong today is that they pray for external validation.
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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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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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If you have the capacity to be more than one thing , do everything that’s inside of you.
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There is nothing I’m any more passionate than empowering the next generation.
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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.
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Success is never an accident it’s always on purpose.
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