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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.

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T. D. Jakes
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: June 9
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Evangelist
Priest
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South Charleston
West Virginia
Thomas Dexter Jakes
Sr.
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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 cannot change what you will not confront.
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I probably take a pretty traditional view about hell. I'm not very contemporary in terms of that.
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My father was a Methodist and my mother was a Baptist.
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I came to serve notice on the devil- he is a liar!
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