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I don't care how fancy you wrap trash, it's still trash.

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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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It's a culture shock to go from obscurity to notoriety in a flash. Its more to it than talent and money its pressure, stress, enemies, critics you have to develop relationships and a team. There are all of these things that go along with taking a leap and following your dreams.
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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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Set the goal to harvest what's in you rather than having a car, house or a relationship.
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A church that focuses on the external has lost its passion for souls.
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Any great teacher is a great student.
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We are the people that we have been waiting for and no one else is coming.
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My father was a Methodist and my mother was a Baptist.
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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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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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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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I wasn't looking out, I was looking in. I knew something was in me, I just wasn't sure how valuable it was.
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I don't think that you can let the storms of life overwhelm you. When you do that, you are no better than the craziness that caused you to be under attack.
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There may be challenges or crosses that may have delayed your goals temporarily, but now it’s time to move forward.
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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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It is your passion that empowers you to be able to do that thing you were created to do.
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Church only benefits you when you participate in the presence of God.
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When you can't do nothing but pray-you've done a whole lot.
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I think it's important that when you're bringing something to the table that you're sure has value, that you don't diminish yourself just so that you can have an opportunity.
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I actually grew up playing the piano in the church and was deeply involved in music ministry.
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