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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.

T. D. Jakes

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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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