We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it’s absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive.
T. D. JAKESThe greater the battle – the greater the spoils.
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A church that focuses on the external has lost its passion for souls.
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If you have achieved any level of success, then pour it into someone else. Success is not success without a successor.
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I 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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Basic Instincts It’s the way mother birds build nests, and build them high enough to elude
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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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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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There is a higher power, a higher influence, a God who rules and reigns and controls circumstances and situations that are beyond your area and realm of authority.
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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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God’s grace and mercy have brought you through. Quit acting as if you made it on your own.
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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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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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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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I think the thing that people do wrong today is that they pray for external validation.
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You don’t know how much you’ve grown- until trouble comes back for an encore.
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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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