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.
T. D. JAKESYou can’t have healing without sickness.
More T. D. Jakes Quotes
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I think the thing that people do wrong today is that they pray for external validation.
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A church that focuses on the external has lost its passion for souls.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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Basic Instincts It’s the way mother birds build nests, and build them high enough to elude
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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 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 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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We should still pray. We have no other authority but to pray.
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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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You shouldn’t shoot at every opportunity that passes by.
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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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