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Life's a university that'll teach you lessons, regardless of your desire to pass the “class” or not, there is always something else to learn

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T. D. Jakes
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: June 9
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Evangelist
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South Charleston
West Virginia
Thomas Dexter Jakes
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Don't try to change the package more than you try and change the product.
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A lot of can't deal with life because they lack the patience to become who they want to be.... Everything happens by process. If you don't go through the process to get it, you don't have the power to keep it.
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Worship, from the Latin word meaning worth-ship, is where we express God's worth to us in our lives.
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I think that the church has to develop its own agenda, and not allow itself to be consumed by either party to the chagrin of the people that we seek to serve.
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It is the breaking of life that produces the blessing of life.
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I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground.
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We are the people that we have been waiting for and no one else is coming.
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Your words will tell others what you think. Your actions will tell them what you believe.
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Church only benefits you when you participate in the presence of God.
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I know whatever God means for me to have He'll give it to me. And if it takes too much sweat I don't need it.
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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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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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God's not going to promote you because you have a dream, He's going to promote you because you've maximized where you are so now you're ready to go to the next level.
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We should still pray. We have no other authority but to pray.
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Stress and worry is a residual of relying on yourself and being your own god, in control of everything. Worship allows us to rely on God's power to steer us through life.
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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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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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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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You cannot change what you will not confront.
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