“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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T.D. Jakes
“God’s response is simple. Anything that is made well is made slowly.”
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T.D. Jakes
“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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T.D. Jakes
“both success and struggle are different kinds of trauma.”
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T.D. Jakes
“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.”
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T.D. Jakes
“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
“Instinct and purpose often operate like a marriage.”
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T.D. Jakes
“Sometimes what makes us insecure and vulnerable becomes the fuel we need to be overachievers. The antidote for a snakebite is made from the poison, and the thing that made you go backward is the same force that will push you forward.”
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T.D. Jakes
“Many people live in the waiting room, not because of God’s unwillingness to promote, but because of their unwillingness to be faithful in their current life situation.”
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T.D. Jakes
“We are a microwave generation serving a Crock-Pot God.”
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T.D. Jakes
“Friends, loved ones, and even enemies influence us, but that doesn’t mean their comments are relevant to your destiny.”
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T.D. Jakes
“Faith is the substance of whatever it is that we hope for. The important thing is that we teach that faith is connected to good works and responsibility.”
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T.D. Jakes
“I felt particularly compelled to write this book because the “why” is always more powerful than the “how” of life.”
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T.D. Jakes
If you can dream it, you can achieve it. The secret to recapturing dreams is to enjoy the pursuit of the dream, rather than to focus on the outcome.”
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T.D. Jakes
“A church that focuses on the external has lost its passion for souls.”
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T.D. Jakes
