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You cannot be a Big person with a Small heart

T. D. Jakes

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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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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.
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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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I grew up in hospitals. My father was sick. So I grew up in hospitals from the age of 10. Got to see a lot of suffering.
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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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We have a tendency to want the other person to be a finished product while we give ourselves the grace to evolve.
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You cannot embrace your destiny if you do not let go of your history.
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There are rooms for traditional and contemporary and hip hop Gospel music.
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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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Never make a permanent decision about a temporary situation.
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There is a higher power, a higher influence, a God who rules and reigns and controls circumstances and situations that are beyond your area and realm of authority.
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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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I think being a good Christian father, your responsibility varies with the age and the stage that your children are at.
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I think that it's unfortunate that we have allowed politics to use theology to hit areas that we sincerely want to support. But I think that they are using us to some degree because they are using what concerns us to isolate us.
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a setback is a setup for a comeback
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As the old African adage says, 'everybody skin to me ain't kin to me'. So you can't exclusively make that the criteria of your job selection and say that it's right when it's black and discrimination when it's white.
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You don't know how much you've grown- until trouble comes back for an encore.
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My father was a Methodist and my mother was a Baptist.
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When it comes to bringing an idea that God has given you to fruition, don't wait for it to happen again, you have to get out there and make it happen.
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We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.
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I can never experience the next realm of glory until I crucify myself.
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