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.
T. D. JAKESI 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.
T. D. JAKESI think the thing that people do wrong today is that they pray for external validation.
T. D. JAKESI 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.
T. D. JAKESWe think that forgiveness is weakness, but it’s absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive.
T. D. JAKESSometimes 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 shouldn’t shoot at every opportunity that passes by.
T. D. JAKESI’m not particularly political. I’m not particularly denominational. I’m not worried about any of that.
T. D. JAKESToo many people want the appearance of winning rather than the practices and hard work that create a true champion.
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.
T. D. JAKESHere 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.
T. D. JAKESGod’s grace and mercy have brought you through. Quit acting as if you made it on your own.
T. D. JAKESI 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.
T. D. JAKESEagles fly where lesser birds cannot fly, so eagles can do what lesser birds cannot do.
T. D. JAKESThe dream God gives you guarantees, no matter what it looks like now, when it’s all over, your dream will come to pass.
T. D. JAKESIf you have achieved any level of success, then pour it into someone else. Success is not success without a successor.
T. D. JAKESThe 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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