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You can't be who you are going to be and who you used to be at the same time.

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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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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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When people walk away from you, let them go. Your destiny is never tied to anyone who leaves you, and it doesn't mean they are bad people. It just means that their part in your story is over.
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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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Being angry is human. Staying angry is foolish.
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There's a connectivity between your generation, my ministry and who I am as a person.
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My views about hell are very traditional.
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We should still pray. We have no other authority but to pray.
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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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When God blesses you, don't let no devil in hell move you out of your place of blessing!
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It's better to gather in righteousness than fellowship with darkness.
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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 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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Eagles fly where lesser birds cannot fly, so eagles can do what lesser birds cannot do.
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I raised five children. They all have different personalities. All of them have different issues, different levels of success. That was a learning experience for me.
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When people can walk away from you: Let them walk.
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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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Big ideas come from forward thinking people who challenge the norm, think outside the box, and invent the world they see inside rather than submitting to the limitations of current dilemmas
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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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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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You are no greater than what you believe.
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