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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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T. D. Jakes
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: June 9
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South Charleston
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Thomas Dexter Jakes
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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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It is the breaking of life that produces the blessing of life.
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Surround yourself with people whose definition of you is not based on your history, but your destiny.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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Resist your fear fear will never lead to you a positive end. Go for your faith and what you believe.
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I didn't know who I was and I didn't know if what was in me was any good. But my parents taught me to believe in myself and to work until something happens.
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I would tell your generation, wherever you are on the totem poll - whether you're halfway there or at the bottom, don't despise small beginnings small beginnings get you ready for great things.
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Comfort is the enemy of creativity.
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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.
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Faith becomes a bridge between where I am and where I want to go- it is a substance.
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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.
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When people can walk away from you: Let them walk.
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