T.D. Jakes Quotes

#1. 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?

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#2. 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.

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#3. How can we teach our children to respect Black women if Black women don't respect Black women?

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#4. I can never experience the next realm of glory until I crucify myself.

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#5. 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.

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#6. Nobody wants to stand behind a parked car. You got to always follow somebody who keeps it moving.

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#7. 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.

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#8. 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!

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#9. Progress apart from purpose ends in arrogance.

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#10. 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.

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#11. 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.

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#12. I think most people who get into their 50s reassess what made sense and what didn't make sense.

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#13. 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.)

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#14. The critic is a prisoner to his own experiences and perspectives, erroneously believing his limited experiences are the sum of all truth

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#15. A church that focuses on the external has lost its passion for souls.

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#16. 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.

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#17. 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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#18. 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.

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#19. 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.

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#20. If you have the capacity to be more than one thing , do everything that's inside of you.

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#21. 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.

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#22. Worship, from the Latin word meaning "worth-ship", is where we express God's worth to us in our lives.

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#23. Contentment comes when you find the people, places, and events in life you were created to impact.

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#24. 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.

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#25. The T.D. Jakes Relationship Bible: Life Lessons on Relationships from the Inspired Word of God.

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#26. 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.

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#27. You cannot embrace your destiny if you do not let go of your history.

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#28. 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.

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#29. 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.

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#30. 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!

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#31. 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

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#32. No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn't in submission to God!

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#33. One of the great healing balms of the Holy Spirit is forgiveness. To forgive is to break the link between you and your past.

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#34. You don't have to sin to be carnal. People who are carnal just means they make all their decisions based on their senses.

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#35. Faith must always pass the test of discouragement.

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#36. 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.

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#37. 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.

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#38. Never make a permanent decision about a temporary situation.

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#39. It is God's objective to make your condition line up with your position.

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#40. 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.

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#41. Faith becomes a bridge between where I am and where I want to go- it is a substance.

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#42. 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.

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#43. 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!

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#44. 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.

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#45. I think its good to worship as a family but its also important to worship as an individual.

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#46. 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.

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#47. You cannot be a Big person with a Small heart

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#48. 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.

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#49. 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

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#50. Forgive others so that you may be forgiven.

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#51. Basic Instincts It's the way mother birds build nests, and build them high enough to elude

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#52. When my father died, I had a real experience with Christ, a real conversion with Christ and I had it in a Oneness church.

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#53. God has invested entirely too much in you for you to be comfortable in anything less than you were created to be.

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#54. Instincts under pressure crush the carbon of conformity and create diamonds.

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#55. 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.

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#56. Success is never an accident it's always on purpose.

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#57. 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.

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#58. We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it's absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive.

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#59. I'm not particularly political. I'm not particularly denominational. I'm not worried about any of that.

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#60. 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.

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#61. It's better to gather in righteousness than fellowship with darkness.

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#62. But you cannot go through the Door of Destiny without passing through the Hall of Haters.

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#63. How much better to get wisdom than gold! And to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver (Proverbs 16:16 NKJV).

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#64. 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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#65. Comfort is the enemy of creativity.

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#66. 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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#67. 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.

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#68. You cannot have victory without conflict.

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#69. I actually grew up playing the piano in the church and was deeply involved in music ministry.

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#70. 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.

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#71. The right thing at the wrong time will lead to failure.

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#72. 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.

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#73. 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.

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#74. Every major move in my life was done instinctively.

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#75. 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.

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#76. When you make a decision to forgive it's a decision that you have to make intellectually.

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#77. 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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#78. 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.

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#79. The pursuit of your life is to come into [your] purpose. And the waste of your life is to miss that purpose.

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#80. I think that my preaching style and many of my ideas and ideals about faith are based in both Pentecostal and Baptist background.

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#81. 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.

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#82. Worship strengthens you. It gives you a sense of God's presence and ultimately His protection and provision.

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#83. 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.

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#84. 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

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#85. Thinking is the first step to a revolution in your life that is incredibly significant.

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#86. God is not preparing the Blessing for YOU, He is preparing YOU for the Blessing

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#87. 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.

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#88. But I think my mistakes became the chemistry for my miracles. I think that my tests became my testimonies.

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#89. 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.

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#90. We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.

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#91. 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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#92. I'm not walking by sight- I'm, walking by faith

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#93. Some of the best people with whom you can have a relationship are the people who challenge your thinking.

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#94. 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.

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#95. 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.

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#96. If you can't figure out your purpose, figure out your passion. For your passion will lead you right into your purpose.

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#97. There may be challenges or crosses that may have delayed your goals temporarily, but now it's time to move forward.

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#98. Too many people want the appearance of winning rather than the practices and hard work that create a true champion.

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#99. There's something you learn from helping other people with their dreams that prepares you for your own.

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#100. 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.

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