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My father was a Methodist and my mother was a Baptist.

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T. D. Jakes
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: June 9
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South Charleston
West Virginia
Thomas Dexter Jakes
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Forgiveness is a gift you give to yourself
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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.
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Don't get stuck on small. Don't stop dreaming, reaching and enhancing what you have.
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You don't know how much you've grown- until trouble comes back for an encore.
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The traditional churches are having to transition into new methodologies and new ways of reaching people and they are starting to understand that and looking for ways they can increase their relevance to the contemporary society.
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May the passion to be all that God wants you to be sweep across your soul like a gentle breeze.
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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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I think many people have an illusion of success based on entering in at a level that's higher than their experiences.
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There is no room for God in a mind that's full of self.
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One of the things about my ministry is that I have never branded myself as being above the people or superior to people.
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There's a connectivity between your generation, my ministry and who I am as a person.
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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.
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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.
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Excellence requires discomfort.
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I don't care how cheap the box is that you put a diamond ring in, nothing about the box diminishes the value of the content.
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When you are talking about moral issues you are talking about same-sex marriage, which has been relegated over to the states. It's no longer a federal issue and yet, we are dealing with it like it's a federal issue but for a large degree it has become a state issue.
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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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Your words will tell others what you think. Your actions will tell them what you believe.
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