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Church only benefits you when you participate in the presence of God.

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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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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You can teach what you know, but you can only reproduce what you are.
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Others can inspire you, but ultimately the only thing that empowers you is what lies within you and learning how to better utilize what you’ve been given.
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Forgive others so that you may be forgiven.
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We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it's absolutely not it takes a very strong person to forgive.
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Contentment comes when you find the people, places, and events in life you were created to impact.
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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'm not walking by sight- I'm, walking by faith
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We are the people that we have been waiting for and no one else is coming.
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Don't try to change the package more than you try and change the product.
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God's grace is painted on the canvas of despair.
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You cannot change what you will not confront.
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God gives you the resources for success. But it is up to you to recognize them and use them to their fullest.
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I started my ministry when I was 19, I was pastoring at 22 and I got married when I was 24, so I was building at such a young age and that fight, that dream and tenacity is still in me.
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I'm not particularly political. I'm not particularly denominational. I'm not worried about any of that.
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The brilliance of morning is in sharp contrast with the darkness of night - Woman thou art loosed
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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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The Hell of Regret He who wins the race cannot run with the pack. And once you get out you can't come back, because caged lions don't mate with free ones! If ever you are going to win, you must forsake the social construct of the cage and all the cage dwellers.
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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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