“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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T.D. Jakes
“What are you going to do with what you have been given?”
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T.D. Jakes
“Just because people love your gift doesn’t mean they love you. Most of them will never really know you. Most of them don’t care about you. They just want your gift. And it’s okay to share your gift. It’s a good thing to serve your gift to people or in places that may benefit from it.”
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T.D. Jakes
“There is no shortcut to excellence.”
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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
“God has invested entirely too much in you for you to be comfortable in anything less than you were created to be.”
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T.D. Jakes
“The value of your Creator should cause you to reconsider your own worth and value.”
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T.D. Jakes
“You never know what you might discover by thinking outside the box that culture, conformity, and critics have tried to impose.”
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T.D. Jakes
“The same God who opens doors also shuts doors. We must be submissive enough to His will to understand that we are to rejoice when the doors open but also when the doors close.”
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T.D. Jakes
“We are to work to improve ourselves while at the same time remaining totally dependent on God.”
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T.D. Jakes
“Never make a permanent decision about a temporary situation.”
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T.D. Jakes
“Many people shun an anointed atmosphere because they know that it will challenge them to change. Preferring to stay where the power of God is not moving, they are never challenged, convicted, or transformed.”
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T.D. Jakes
“Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God‘s will is—His good, pleasing and perfect will (Romans 12:2 NIV).”
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T.D. Jakes
“If you’re not living your destiny as you journey, you won’t be able to live it after you reach your destination. Destiny is not only a destination, a goal, a dream, a purpose; it is an inner process of becoming all you were meant to be. You are educated before you get the degree.”
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T.D. Jakes
“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
