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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.

T. D. Jakes

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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Age Dream Fight Marry
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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Insecure Need Poison
You don’t know how much you’ve grown- until trouble comes back for an encore.
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Encores Grown People Trouble
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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Giving Step Think Understand
The dream God gives you guarantees, no matter what it looks like now, when it’s all over, your dream will come to pass.
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Dream Giving Over People
A church that focuses on the external has lost its passion for souls.
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Inspirational Passion Soul
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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Color Country Excellence People
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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Age Father Sick Suffer
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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Church People Transition
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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Levels Restore Someone Successors
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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Education Morning Teacher
Success is never an accident it’s always on purpose.
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Accident Purpose Success
We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it’s absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive.
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Forgiveness Strong Thinking
There is nothing I’m any more passionate than empowering the next generation.
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Empower Generation Passionate
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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Christian Easter Sunday
Basic Instincts It’s the way mother birds build nests, and build them high enough to elude
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Bird Elude Mother Nest

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