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Instincts under pressure crush the carbon of conformity and create diamonds. Each new season of life offers to train us for the next season if we pay attention and adapt.

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T. D. Jakes
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: June 9
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Evangelist
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Writer
South Charleston
West Virginia
Thomas Dexter Jakes
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Diamond
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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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Blame unto others only as you would first blame yourself.
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No matter how much talent you have in your mind and spirit, if your body is not able to function, you are not able to fulfill your destiny.
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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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Faith will get in the ditch with you, faith will go in the prison with you, faith will go into divorce court with you, faith will go in the hospital with you, faith will go in the nursing home with you.
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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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A church that focuses on the external has lost its passion for souls.
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If you dont like the way your life is going, redesign it. Redeem the years you lost. Restore your vision, revive your passion for living, and reclaim what was dormant inside of you. I cannot give you the dream but I can give you the tools to reach the dreams you have inside.
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The world is a university and everyone in it is a teacher. Make sure when you wake up in the morning you go to school.
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You cannot be a Big person with a Small heart
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When you leave the familiar and enter the unknown, your fear becomes refined by experience and hammered into tools of survival on the anvil of anxiety.
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Surround yourself with people whose definition of you is not based on your history, but your destiny.
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If you already understand your purpose, are you prepared to change your plans to match God’s will? If you aren’t, you can easily become bitter because things that used to work for you may no longer work. Be willing to transition at every stage and age of life. If your heart is open and you have an open mind, the blessings will flow.
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May the passion to be all that God wants you to be sweep across your soul like a gentle breeze.
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It does matter where you go to church, it does matter where you worship, it does matter where you lift your head, it does matter where you cry out to God. There is something about the atmosphere. I might be lame, but put me in the atmosphere. I may be drunk, but put me in the atmosphere. I may be weak, but put me in the atmosphere.
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Here is the amazing thing about Easter the resurrection Sunday for Christians is this, that Christ in the dying moments on the cross gives us the greatest illustration of forgiveness possible.
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You’d be surprised at the things that look great on the outside but are dysfunctional on the inside. Be sure to function as good as you look
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Set the goal to harvest what's in you rather than having a car, house or a relationship.
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I was looking for excellence in any color or gender it comes in. Some of my top people are African American but not all of them.
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The most wonderful thing in the world is somebody who knows who they are and knows where they're going and knows what they were created to do
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