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.
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.
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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 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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So though there are many things I would have done differently, I submit to God’s sovereignty and His purpose in my life and I thank Him that He brought me the way He brought me and gave me what He gave me when He thought I could handle it.
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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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I think the thing that people do wrong today is that they pray for external validation.
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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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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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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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If you have the capacity to be more than one thing , do everything that’s inside of you.
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A church that focuses on the external has lost its passion for souls.
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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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The enemy doesn’t care how many days you live as long as you don’t live in the days you have.
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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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