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.
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.
More T. D. Jakes Quotes
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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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There is nothing I’m any more passionate than empowering the next generation.
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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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Success is never an accident it’s always on purpose.
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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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We should still pray. We have no other authority but to pray.
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I think the thing that people do wrong today is that they pray for external validation.
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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 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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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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A church that focuses on the external has lost its passion for souls.
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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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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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The greater the battle – the greater the spoils.
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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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