Whenever you face obstacles, crises and dilemmas and your confidence is in your associates more than in God- it is a sign your faith is deteriorating.
T. D. JAKESWe think that forgiveness is weakness, but it’s absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive.
More T. D. Jakes Quotes
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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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You can’t have healing without sickness.
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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 think the thing that people do wrong today is that they pray for external validation.
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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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There is nothing I’m any more passionate than empowering the next generation.
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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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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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God’s grace and mercy have brought you through. Quit acting as if you made it on your own.
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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 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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We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it’s absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive.
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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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Basic Instincts It’s the way mother birds build nests, and build them high enough to elude
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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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