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Every goal that you will ever pursue will require a plan of action. Whether you are pursuing your life's destiny or striving to obtain a particular goal, you must be able to see things as you desire them to be. -- T.d. Jakes
My mother would take the Band-Aid off, clean the wound, and say, "Things that are covered don't heal well." Mother was right. Things that are covered do not heal well. -- T.d. Jakes
Faith becomes the foundation I'm built on. -- T.d. Jakes
Forgive others so that you may be forgiven. -- T.d. Jakes
The lifting up of the woman does not require the tearing down of the man. In fact, a strong woman appreciates a strong man. Conversely, a strong man is not intimidated by a strong woman. -- T.d. Jakes
Faith must always pass the test of discouragement. -- T.d. Jakes
Will you bring life to your dream or will you allow it to die of neglect? It is absolutely true that you have a divine summons to fulfill, but it's not automatic and it's not guaranteed. You are the major player who must give yourself fully to the process of becoming. -- T.d. Jakes
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. -- T.d. Jakes
Some of the best people with whom you can have a relationship are the people who challenge your thinking. -- T.d. Jakes
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. -- T.d. Jakes
Somebody is n the hospital begging God for the opportunity u have right now. Step into your moment. -- T.d. Jakes
The low-grade plagiarism of popularity will never lead you to true contentment. -- T.d. Jakes
You cannot rush God's timing.
When the Lord speaks a word into your life, it is like a seed. Is your confidence in God's seed? -- T.d. Jakes
Serving the Lord is not always easy or popular. Folks may laugh at you on your job, mocking and making fun of your faith. But once you decide that there's no turning back, something in your heart rises up and says "no" to the devil and "yes" to the Lord. -- T.d. Jakes
When there's no turning back, your instincts will lead you forward. -- T.d. Jakes
If you think down, you will go down. If you think up, you will go up. You'll always travel in the direction of your thinking. -- T.d. Jakes
If you dont like the way your life is going, redesign it. Redeem the years you lost. Restore your vision, revive your passion for living, and reclaim what was dormant inside of you. I cannot give you the dream but I can give you the tools to reach the dreams you have inside. -- T.d. Jakes
I think that my preaching style and many of my ideas and ideals about faith are based in both Pentecostal and Baptist background. -- T.d. Jakes
Children are not unforgiving. You can punish them and they will hug you in a few minutes. -- T.d. Jakes
How much better to get wisdom than gold! And to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver (Proverbs 16:16 NKJV). -- T.d. Jakes
Be strong enough to stand up again, even after haters make you drop to your knees. -- T.d. Jakes
Many people shun an anointed atmosphere because they know that it will challenge them to change. Preferring to stay where the power of God is not moving, they are never challenged, convicted, or transformed. -- T.d. Jakes
Don't allow your past or present condition to control you. It's just a process that you're going through to get you to the next level. -- T.d. Jakes
Real value isn't in what you own, drive, wear or live. The greater value is found in love and life, health and strength, friends and family! -- T.d. Jakes
Resist your fear; fear will never lead to you a positive end. Go for your faith and what you believe. -- T.d. Jakes
Never make a permanent decision about a temporary situation. -- T.d. Jakes
Its not over, until the Lord says its over. -- T.d. Jakes
I'll give you some symptoms of a sign that your faith is deteriorating-whenever you face all of your problems and you trust only your plans to get you out-it is a sign that your faith is deteriorating. -- T.d. Jakes
Someone you considered a friend will kick you to the curb because you stop hanging out so much with the fellas to be with your girlfriend. Prioritize your relationships and you will discover who your real friends are. -- T.d. Jakes
Whenever you face obstacles, crises and dilemmas and your confidence is in your associates more than in God- it is a sign your faith is deteriorating. -- T.d. Jakes
Come hell or high water you will never take me back to the place I was before. I have been through too much to let life whoop me again. My faith is stronger than it's ever been, my mind is more tenacious than it's ever been, my soul is more absolute. -- T.d. Jakes
Others can inspire you, but ultimately the only thing that empowers you is what lies within you and learning how to better utilize what you've been given. -- T.d. Jakes
If you have the FAITH to believe it, you have the POWER to conceive it! -- T.d. Jakes
A lot of can't deal with life because they lack the patience to become who they want to be ... Everything happens by process. If you don't go through the process to get it, you don't have the power to keep it. -- T.d. Jakes
The first time I walked on a stage I knew that was what I was created to do. I knew that there was a calling and a sense of purpose in my life that gave me fulfillment and a sense of destiny. -- T.d. Jakes
If you can learn to love the imperfect people in your family then it's possible that someone can learn to love a imperfect you. -- T.d. Jakes
Often after years of deep investment into others we are shocked and disappointed that they simply didn't get who we really are. -- T.d. Jakes
Some think that emulating those we admire makes us more effective and guarantees the result they exhibit. The goal is not to duplicate someone else's greatness or purpose, destiny or creativity. -- T.d. Jakes
When You Hold Onto Your History, You Do It At The Expense Of Your Destiny. -- T.d. Jakes
When my father died, I had a real experience with Christ, a real conversion with Christ and I had it in a Oneness church. -- T.d. Jakes
The T.D. Jakes Relationship Bible: Life Lessons on Relationships from the Inspired Word of God. -- T.d. Jakes
Face the giants in your life, slay them, and move on. Do not be daunted by the mistakes and failures in your life. -- T.d. Jakes
You don't even have to be the one praying, but if you get around somebody who really know how to pray-prayer will lift you when you've fallen, prayer will catch you when you've lost your grip, prayer will stop you from going overboard, prayer will bring you out! -- T.d. Jakes
Second, the biblical principle of "ask, seek, and knock" is prudent advice for gaining a higher level of access. -- T.d. Jakes
If you learn how to forgive others for not being strong, then people can learn how to forgive you for your own issues. -- T.d. Jakes
Too many people want the appearance of winning rather than the practices and hard work that create a true champion. -- T.d. Jakes
The pursuit of your life is to come into [your] purpose. And the waste of your life is to miss that purpose. -- T.d. Jakes
When you begin to realize that your past does not necessarily dictate the outcome of your future, then you can release the hurt. It is impossible to inhale new air until you exhale the old. -- T.d. Jakes
You cannot be a Big person with a Small heart -- T.d. Jakes
We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it's absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive. -- T.d. Jakes
Big ideas come from forward thinking people who challenge the norm, think outside the box, and invent the world they see inside rather than submitting to the limitations of current dilemmas -- T.d. Jakes
I came to serve notice on the devil- he is a liar! -- T.d. Jakes
No matter how much talent you have in your mind and spirit, if your body is not able to function, you are not able to fulfill your destiny. -- T.d. Jakes
Faith will get in the ditch with you, faith will go in the prison with you, faith will go into divorce court with you, faith will go in the hospital with you, faith will go in the nursing home with you. -- T.d. Jakes
I raised five children. They all have different personalities. All of them have different issues, different levels of success. That was a learning experience for me. -- T.d. Jakes
I think that Jesus is the product. -- T.d. Jakes
I was raised in the Baptist church ... but I didn't really have a real committed experience with Christ until my father died. -- T.d. Jakes
Nobody likes hard times, but it's the unpleasant experiences that are often the catalysts to build the character required for our destiny. -- T.d. Jakes
The enemy doesn't care how many days you live as long as you don't live in the days you have. -- T.d. Jakes
We need instead to find people who are in sync with our beat and form a more perfect union with those who hear the same rhythm! It is time for us to find the thing we were created to do, the people we were meant to affect, and the power that comes from alignment with purpose. -- T.d. Jakes
Just because people love your gift doesn't mean they love you. Most of them will never really know you. Most of them don't care about you. They just want your gift. And it's okay to share your gift. It's a good thing to serve your gift to people or in places that may benefit from it. -- T.d. Jakes
It's not selfish to prioritize your life to fulfill Destiny. It's actually the most selfless thing you can do. God has an appointment for you to serve humanity in the greatest way possible for you. -- T.d. Jakes
Worship strengthens you. It gives you a sense of God's presence and ultimately His protection and provision. -- T.d. Jakes
Accept the process. Your blessing is already ready. It's already done. God is getting you ready for the blessing, preparing you for your destiny. -- T.d. Jakes
Baptism was to put a line of demarcation between your past sins when you are buried with Him by Baptism-you are burying your past sins-eradicating them-putting a line in the sand saying that old man is dead and he is no longer alive any more and I rise up to walk in the newness of life. -- T.d. Jakes
When God blesses you, not only will He bless you personally, but He will bless your family, your field, your crops, and your land. According to Deuteronomy 28, God will take you who used to be the tail and make you the head. -- T.d. Jakes
You must realize that if you are going to reach the heights you have been called to reach, you may elicit some criticism from those who are jealous, petty or angry because they were left behind. -- T.d. Jakes
Either your troubles make you better, or they make you bitter. We must always examine what's going on in our hearts. -- T.d. Jakes
Even when things are getting worse instead of better - I believe God! -- T.d. Jakes
All of us have not been to a natural prison, but everybody in here has had a spiritual prison. -- T.d. Jakes
You cannot partake of the power of Christ's resurrection unless you are first willing to lay down your own will and desires, and die to all your pride and independence. -- T.d. Jakes
You will never understand pleasure without pain. -- T.d. Jakes
Eagles fly where lesser birds cannot fly, so eagles can do what lesser birds cannot do. -- T.d. Jakes
Faith is your anchor and sustainer in the new season. Faith that the one who called us is faithful. Faith helps you see in the dark. And when you feel like you can't see, Faith steadies your heart to trust what you know. What is true. -- T.d. Jakes
Once again, Kirk Franklin takes the church beyond the traditional, transitioning his life's experiences into life lessons. Clearly there is more to this man than great music. You will feel the beat of his heart and faith. -- T.d. Jakes
Many of us harbor hidden low self-esteem. We deem everything and everyone more important that ourselves and think that meeting their needs is more important than meeting our own. But if you run out of gas, everyone riding with you will be left stranded. -- T.d. Jakes
All over this nation, all over this world there are people going to church today and they say they are believers, but until you can take what you've been taught and bring it to the place you gave up - you will never be the radical believer that you need to be for the times in which we live. -- T.d. Jakes
When you don't become fixated on winning the prize or appearing successful, and instead pursue your passions, then you will discover the fulfillment that comes from living by instinct. -- T.d. Jakes
Church only benefits you when you participate in the presence of God. -- T.d. Jakes
If you can't figure out your purpose, figure out your passion. For your passion will lead you right into your purpose. -- T.d. Jakes
My father was a Methodist and my mother was a Baptist. -- T.d. Jakes
Progress apart from purpose ends in arrogance. -- T.d. Jakes
To be unforgiving is like to drink poison and wait for someone else to die!!
Rev. TD Jakes (have I said how much I love ya!) -- T.d. Jakes
When you leave the familiar and enter the unknown, your fear becomes refined by experience and hammered into tools of survival on the anvil of anxiety. -- T.d. Jakes
Jealousy is the manifestation of insecurity and dissatisfaction with one's calling and self-worth. -- T.d. Jakes
I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be. -- T.d. Jakes
God is not preparing the Blessing for YOU, He is preparing YOU for the Blessing -- T.d. Jakes
Never make a permanent decision based on a temporary storm.. No matter how raging the billows are today, remind yourself: "This too shall pass!" -- T.d. Jakes
Our instincts may have even guided us to hide parts of ourselves in order to keep them alive when we were younger. -- T.d. Jakes
In the midst of the shopping and the wrapping and the arranging of presents under your tree this Christmas, may you not forget the gifts you cannot yet hold in your hands. -- T.d. Jakes
God gives you the resources for success. But it is up to you to recognize them and use them to their fullest. -- T.d. Jakes
Your latter days are supposed to be greater than your former days. -- T.d. Jakes
The Hell of Regret He who wins the race cannot run with the pack. And once you get out you can't come back, because caged lions don't mate with free ones! If ever you are going to win, you
must forsake the social construct of the cage and all the cage dwellers. -- T.d. Jakes
Stress and worry is a residual of relying on yourself and being your own god, in control of everything. Worship allows us to rely on God's power to steer us through life. -- T.d. Jakes
Besides, Jesus was a rich man. He had to have been, in order to have supported his disciples and their families during his ministry. -- T.d. Jakes
When you were built to be tall, you will endanger your position if you lower your perspective -- T.d. Jakes
Not everyone will be happy when you begin to better yourself. Those who are for you will not just celebrate in your triumphs, but they will also pray with you through your tribulations. -- T.d. Jakes
Silence isn't golden and it surely doesn't mean consent, so start practicing the art of communication. -- T.d. Jakes
To those of us who often procrastinate on the decision we feel intimidated by lack of education or any area of weakness. I relieve you with this statement: It is not how much you know that arms you with the tools of great decision making, but rather how much you ask. Ask questions. -- T.d. Jakes
Thinking is the first step to a revolution in your life that is incredibly significant. -- T.d. Jakes
What you can do is embrace what you have right now and to allow it to fill the vacancies of what you didn't get yesterday. -- T.d. Jakes
If we have been diligent to hide the Word of God in our hearts, and if we continue to labor over that Word, we can be assured that in the time of harvest we will reap a bountiful reward if we faint not. (See Galatians 6:9.) -- T.d. Jakes
God is quickly fulfilling today all that He has said in the past through His prophets, and is speaking presently through His ministers and servants. We are embarking upon the time of harvest. -- T.d. Jakes
Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past. -- T.d. Jakes
What woman would not appreciate a God who becomes her attorney, assumes her case, requires no fee, and wins her the victory? -- T.d. Jakes
The myth of the poor Jesus needs to be destroyed, because it's holding people back. -- T.d. Jakes
One of the great healing balms of the Holy Spirit is forgiveness. To forgive is to break the link between you and your past. -- T.d. Jakes
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. -- T.d. Jakes
I think most people who get into their 50s reassess what made sense and what didn't make sense. -- T.d. Jakes
Ignorance is brought about by assumption. -- T.d. Jakes
No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn't in submission to God! -- T.d. Jakes
Think about it this way: if you are too predictable in any area of your life, you may be paving the way to your own extinction! -- T.d. Jakes
Do you have any idea who you have the capacity to become? If you were not bound by the confines of your mind, who might you become? -- T.d. Jakes
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. -- T.d. Jakes
God's grace and mercy have brought you through. Quit acting as if you made it on your own. -- T.d. Jakes
When you're living by instinct, then you will naturally enhance everything and everyone around you. In other words, success will come naturally! When both your intellect and instincts are aligned, then producing the fruits of your labors brings satisfaction beyond measure. -- T.d. Jakes
May the passion to be all that God wants you to be sweep across your soul like a gentle breeze. -- T.d. Jakes
Some young ladies are so starved for male approval that what should be a normal attraction to men is accelerated into an obsessive need for male affirmation. Tragically, these dear ladies allow themselves to be devoured in the arms of men who have neither regard not respect for them as people. -- T.d. Jakes
First things that a hurting person needs to do is break the habit of using other people as a narcotic to numb the dull aching of an inner void. -- T.d. Jakes
Nobody wants to stand behind a parked car. You got to always follow somebody who keeps it moving. -- T.d. Jakes
Instincts under pressure crush the carbon of conformity and create diamonds. -- T.d. Jakes
Worship plays a major role in the Christian daily life. Throughout Scripture we see worship from David dancing before the Lord to Jesus rejoicing in the Spirit. -- T.d. Jakes
a setback is a setup for a comeback -- T.d. Jakes
The critic is a prisoner to his own experiences and perspectives, erroneously believing his limited experiences are the sum of all truth -- T.d. Jakes
It's the gymnasium of life where you get the workout, the resistance, and you find out things about yourself that you didn't know. -- T.d. Jakes
I think its good to worship as a family but its also important to worship as an individual. -- T.d. Jakes
You can't just be a recipient of a blessing, you have to do something to make it happen. -- T.d. Jakes
You cannot have a private relationship in a public arena. You must look to an inner circle of people who really know you. Don't expect to have that kind of intimate relationship with people who only know you publicly. Do not seek to be understood by the world. -- T.d. Jakes
We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges. -- T.d. Jakes
Worship, from the Latin word meaning "worth-ship", is where we express God's worth to us in our lives. -- T.d. Jakes
Every major move in my life was done instinctively. -- T.d. Jakes
You cannot change what you will not confront. -- T.d. Jakes
And another thing is that I think as a church whenever we become politically driven, we alienate at least 50 percent of the people that God called us to reach with our political orientations. -- T.d. Jakes
You can wreck your future running from your past. -- T.d. Jakes
The right thing at the wrong time will lead to failure. -- T.d. Jakes
I don't think that you can let the storms of life overwhelm you. When you do that, you are no better than the craziness that caused you to be under attack. -- T.d. Jakes
You don't have to sin to be carnal. People who are carnal just means they make all their decisions based on their senses. -- T.d. Jakes
Isn't it funny how something that will later be a blessing can be a curse if you get it too soon. -- T.d. Jakes
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. -- T.d. Jakes
I want to congratulate all the men out there who are working diligently to be good fathers whether they are stepfathers, or biological fathers or just spiritual fathers. -- T.d. Jakes
Faith is the substance of whatever it is that we hope for. The important thing is that we teach that faith is connected to good works and responsibility. -- T.d. Jakes
The 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. Jakes
Once you have confidence in your instincts, you must never allow other people's refusal to believe, or their data to refute, what you instinctively know is true. -- T.d. Jakes
There are no college courses to build up self-esteem or high school or elementary school. If you don't get those values at a early age, nurtured in your home, you don't get them. -- T.d. Jakes
Life's a university that'll teach you lessons, regardless of your desire to pass the "class" or not, there is always something else to learn -- T.d. Jakes
I actually grew up playing the piano in the church and was deeply involved in music ministry. -- T.d. Jakes
No matter where you are in life right now, know this: God put you on this earth to fulfill the promise He has predestined for your life. -- T.d. Jakes
It's better to gather in righteousness than fellowship with darkness. -- T.d. Jakes
Being angry is human. Staying angry is foolish. -- T.d. Jakes
Basic Instincts It's the way mother birds build nests, and build them high enough to elude -- T.d. Jakes
Unfortunately, many of us often spend our lives doing what we were trained to do. Some do what they were asked to do. And most of us do what others need us to do. And all the while, we wonder why the feeling of fulfillment eludes us. -- T.d. Jakes
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. -- T.d. Jakes
Divorce is not merely separating; it is the tearing apart of what was once joined together. -- T.d. Jakes
It is your passion that empowers you to be able to do that thing you were created to do. -- T.d. Jakes
If you don't invest in you, you'll soon find that no one else will, either. -- T.d. Jakes
How you think about your opportunities determines how you will act on them. -- 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. -- T.d. Jakes
If you are the smartest person in a room, you are in the wrong room. -- T.d. Jakes
Know when your space is too small for you ... and you have to birthed to the next level! -- T.d. Jakes
Contentment comes when you find the people, places, and events in life you were created to impact. -- T.d. Jakes
If you don't find a way to love a flawed person, secretly you're teaching yourself that you are not lovable because of your flaws. -- T.d. Jakes
I don't dislike anybody. I love everybody. -- T.d. Jakes
I believe it is our attitude that determines our altitude. It is our attitude that allows us to soar above those things that would otherwise overcome us. -- T.d. Jakes
When ideas hang out with influence, income will always emerge. -- T.d. Jakes
There may be challenges or crosses that may have delayed your goals temporarily, but now it's time to move forward. -- T.d. Jakes
Why am I here? You may have asked the question as you found yourself in the midst of an amazing, divinely orchestrated opportunity, or you may have asked it in reaction to having made the worst mistake of your life. -- T.d. Jakes
The challenge of the believer is to take the faith that you got in here and take it to the place out there. -- T.d. Jakes
Unforgiveness denies the victim the possibility of parole and leaves them stuck in the prison of what was, incarcerating them in their trauma and relinquishing the chance to escape beyond the pain. -- T.d. Jakes
Blame unto others only as you would first blame yourself. -- T.d. Jakes
If you can dream it, you can achieve it. The secret to recapturing dreams is to enjoy the pursuit of the dream, rather than to focus on the outcome. -- T.d. Jakes
Perhaps looking at the forensics of your past can catapult you forward in a way that merely dreaming can never attain! -- T.d. Jakes
Ya'll don't hear what I'm preaching. I'm preaching so good I'm about to 'Amen' myself! Oh! ... Oh God! I'm preaching good! Hallelujah! -- T.d. Jakes
Sometimes we esteem others more important than ourselves. We always become the martyr. It is wonderful to be self-sacrificing, but watch out for self-disdain! If we don't apply some of the
medicine that we use on others to strengthen ourselves, our patients will be healed and we will be dying. -- T.d. Jakes
You never know what you might discover by thinking outside the box that culture, conformity, and critics have tried to impose. -- T.d. Jakes
Faith becomes a bridge between where I am and where I want to go- it is a substance. -- T.d. Jakes
There is no room for God in a mind that's full of self. -- T.d. Jakes
If you have achieved any level of success, then pour it into someone else. Success is not success without a successor. -- T.d. Jakes
When people can walk away from you: Let them walk. -- T.d. Jakes
Each day is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift to Him. -- T.d. Jakes
It is possible for you to get a grip on the thing that used to have a grip on you. And instead of it controlling you- you are now controlling it. -- T.d. Jakes
When you can't do nothing but pray-you've done a whole lot. -- T.d. Jakes
It is God's objective to make your condition line up with your position. -- T.d. Jakes
I chose to present myself as one who comes from among the people, and I can be touched by their pain because I have my own. -- T.d. Jakes
Don't let fear block God's destiny for you. -- T.d. Jakes
The art of avoiding extremes is an art that is drawn on the canvas of maturity and painted with the abstract strokes of many experiences. -- T.d. Jakes
God's grace is painted on the canvas of despair. -- T.d. Jakes
I think the amazing thing about gospel music is that not only does it lift up the death and resurrection of our Lord, which is consistent with the Gospel, but it is uniquely communicated depending upon the generation. -- T.d. Jakes
Comfort is the enemy of creativity. -- T.d. Jakes
You cannot have victory without conflict. -- T.d. Jakes
There's something you learn from helping other people with their dreams that prepares you for your own. -- T.d. Jakes
Street cred is hard won and Destiny requires you to pay it forward. God helps you through hard times so you can help someone else. -- T.d. Jakes
We are the people that we have been waiting for and no one else is coming. -- T.d. Jakes
The moment you start to embrace how you have been formed and fashioned is the moment you step into the very purpose for which you were created. -- T.d. Jakes
A church that focuses on the external has lost its passion for souls. -- T.d. Jakes
When God blesses you, don't let no devil in hell move you out of your place of blessing! -- T.d. Jakes
Remember that for every problem you face, Heaven has a divine prescription. God has a command of authority that you can bring against your present condition! -- T.d. Jakes
If only we could realize that our purpose is to be caretakers. We are responsible for leading our flock to the place where the grass is green, but it is up to them to eat! We cannot be responsible for how much they digest. We cannot make people mature. -- T.d. Jakes
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. -- T.d. Jakes
It is the breaking of life that produces the blessing of life, -- T.d. Jakes
The brilliance of morning is in sharp contrast with the darkness of night - Woman thou art loosed -- T.d. Jakes
I fully intend to preach the word of God to you until there's a difference between how you walk out of here and how you walked in here. -- T.d. Jakes
Worry worships the words of the enemy -- T.d. Jakes
As a Christian, Christ died so that we will have eternal life in Him in Heaven. What it looks like doesn't matter, what it smells like doesn't matter, as long as Christ is there it will be Heaven to me. -- T.d. Jakes
How can we teach our children to respect Black women if Black women don't respect Black women? -- T.d. Jakes
Things that are covered don't heal well. -- T.d. Jakes
Your greatest failure will precede your greatest success. -- T.d. Jakes
You are no greater than what you believe. -- T.d. Jakes
It's okay to be fearful, but don't let the fear keep you from flying! -- T.d. Jakes
We have a tendency to want the other person to be a finished product while we give ourselves the grace to evolve. -- T.d. Jakes
If you have the capacity to be more than one thing , do everything that's inside of you. -- T.d. Jakes
God has invested entirely too much in you for you to be comfortable in anything less than you were created to be. -- T.d. Jakes
Prayer will get you out of a pinch, prayer will get you out of a crises, prayer will get you out of your dilemma, prayer will get you out of your trouble. -- T.d. Jakes
God will give you anything as long as you understand that he is the primary and not the secondary. -- T.d. Jakes
It is important to remember that for every person, there will be a problem. Even more importantly, for every problem, our God has a prescription! -- T.d. Jakes
The greater the battle - the greater the spoils. -- T.d. Jakes
There is nothing I'm any more passionate than empowering the next generation. -- T.d. Jakes
Both success and struggle are different kinds of trauma. -- T.d. Jakes
We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development. -- T.d. Jakes
Arrogance always destroys opportunity -- T.d. Jakes
I found out that the things that hurt us the most can become the fuel and the catalyst that propel us toward our destiny. It will either make you bitter or it will make you better. -- T.d. Jakes
My first church had seven members in it, and I have to remember, the rent was $225 a month and I worked for Union Carbide and took the check I made from work to pay for the rent to keep the church open. -- T.d. Jakes
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. -- T.d. Jakes
Instead of loaves of bread, many times God gives out handfuls of purpose. -- T.d. Jakes
I'm not walking by sight- I'm, walking by faith -- T.d. Jakes
I can never experience the next realm of glory until I crucify myself. -- T.d. Jakes
You'd be surprised at the things that look great on the outside but are dysfunctional on the inside. Be sure to function as good as you look -- T.d. Jakes
Don't come into the presence of God to impress Him with something He gave you! -- T.d. Jakes
I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground. -- T.d. Jakes
You don't have to be in church service to worship, you can be in your own home. You enhance your spirituality, through the instrument of worship, when you really connect with the invisible, almighty God. -- T.d. Jakes
If you can disappoint yourself as much as you love yourself and you still manage to disappoint yourself then why are you shocked when other people that you love disappoint you. -- T.d. Jakes
You can teach what you know, but you can only reproduce what you are. -- T.d. Jakes
When you make a decision to forgive it's a decision that you have to make intellectually. -- T.d. Jakes
You can't be who you are going to be and who you used to be at the same time. -- T.d. Jakes
If someone must be hurt, if it ever becomes necessary to bear pains, weather strong winds, or withstand trials or opposition, let it be adults and not children. -- T.d. Jakes
Your words will tell others what you think. Your actions will tell them what you believe. -- T.d. Jakes
There are some fires you can't get out of- you've got to go through the fire - you've got to go through the flood - you've got to go through the test - you've got to go through the struggle that you might decrease and he might increase. -- T.d. Jakes
One of the things about my ministry is that I have never branded myself as being above the people or superior to people. -- T.d. Jakes
Focus on your accomplishments , not your failures. -- T.d. Jakes
I'm not particularly political. I'm not particularly denominational. I'm not worried about any of that. -- T.d. Jakes
You cannot embrace your destiny if you do not let go of your history. -- T.d. Jakes
Salvation is the root-the resurrection is the fruit. -- T.d. Jakes
You can't have healing without sickness. -- T.d. Jakes
But I think my mistakes became the chemistry for my miracles. I think that my tests became my testimonies. -- T.d. Jakes
The most wonderful thing in the world is somebody who knows who they are and knows where they're going and knows what they were created to do -- T.d. Jakes
Success is never an accident it's always on purpose. -- T.d. Jakes
I think it is important that we rebuild an atmosphere of forgiveness and civility in every aspect of our lives. -- T.d. Jakes
But you cannot go through the Door of Destiny without passing through the Hall of Haters. -- T.d. Jakes
You are no stronger than your belief system. -- T.d. Jakes
Greatness is contagious ... You'll catch it if you get around it. -- T.d. Jakes
