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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.

T. D. Jakes

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
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
Too many people want the appearance of winning rather than the practices and hard work that create a true champion.
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Hard Practice Win Work
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
I’m not particularly political. I’m not particularly denominational. I’m not worried about any of that.
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Denominate Political Worried
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
A church that focuses on the external has lost its passion for souls.
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Inspirational Passion Soul
I think the thing that people do wrong today is that they pray for external validation.
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People Think Validation
The greater the battle – the greater the spoils.
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Battle Greater Spoil
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
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
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
God’s grace and mercy have brought you through. Quit acting as if you made it on your own.
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Act God Grace Mercy
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
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

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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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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