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.
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.
More T. D. Jakes Quotes
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A church that focuses on the external has lost its passion for souls.
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There is nothing I’m any more passionate than empowering the next generation.
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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 achieved any level of success, then pour it into someone else. Success is not success without a successor.
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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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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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You don’t know how much you’ve grown- until trouble comes back for an encore.
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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 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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The greater the battle – the greater the spoils.
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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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If you have the capacity to be more than one thing , do everything that’s inside of you.
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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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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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