Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

T. D. Jakes
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: June 9
Author
Evangelist
Priest
Writer
South Charleston
West Virginia
Thomas Dexter Jakes
Sr.
Gives
Resurrection
Greatest
Sunday
Possible
Christians
Christian
Forgiveness
Christ
Cross
Moments
Crosses
Giving
Amazing
Illustration
Thing
Dying
Easter

More quotes by T. D. Jakes

Image
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
Image
My views about hell are very traditional.
T. D. Jakes
Image
I actually grew up playing the piano in the church and was deeply involved in music ministry.
T. D. Jakes
Image
Silence isn't golden and it surely doesn't mean consent, so start practicing the art of communication.
T. D. Jakes
Image
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
Image
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
Image
I'm not particularly political. I'm not particularly denominational. I'm not worried about any of that.
T. D. Jakes
Image
You don't know how much you've grown- until trouble comes back for an encore.
T. D. Jakes
Image
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
Image
I think the thing that people do wrong today is that they pray for external validation.
T. D. Jakes
Image
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.
T. D. Jakes
Image
It is enough to be responsible for ensuring that our people have the opportunity to graze in the rich grass of God's nutritious word. Beyond that, we must trust the word to take it's effect. It will work faster in some people than in others. the spiritual body grows and metabolizes food at different rates much like the natural body does.
T. D. Jakes
Image
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
Image
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
Image
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
Image
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
Image
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
Image
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
Image
I wasn't trying to be rich or famous I was trying to figure out what is this thing in me that won't let me sleep that makes me restless and makes me keep pushing. I was trying to discover who I was.
T. D. Jakes
Image
God will give you anything as long as you understand that he is the primary and not the secondary.
T. D. Jakes