You shouldn’t shoot at every opportunity that passes by.
T. D. JAKESI 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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Too many people want the appearance of winning rather than the practices and hard work that create a true champion.
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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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A whole woman will always attract a whole man. And when they touch, they will fuse to create a whole marriage. Ultimately, when the time is right, they will produce whole children.
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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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A church that focuses on the external has lost its passion for souls.
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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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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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If you have the capacity to be more than one thing , do everything that’s inside of you.
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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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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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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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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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We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it’s absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive.
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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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I think the thing that people do wrong today is that they pray for external validation.
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