“If someone must be hurt, if it ever becomes necessary to bear pains, weather strong winds, or withstand trials or opposition, let it be adults and not children.”
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T.D. Jakes
When ideas hang out with influence, income will always emerge.”
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T.D. Jakes
“both success and struggle are different kinds of trauma.”
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T.D. Jakes
“To begin a transformation you must peel back the layers and go to your core.”
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T.D. Jakes
“As we forge deeper into this issue of forgiveness, we must be prepared to open up and discuss things that bother us before they escalate to a crisis level. We must examine our struggles with forgiveness in which there are not overt offenses or blatant betrayals. I'm convinced that seeds of resentment take root in the silent frustrations that never get discussed. Other people cannot read our minds--or our palms!--and that is why we have tongues to speak.”
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T.D. Jakes
“Never make a permanent decision about a temporary situation.”
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T.D. Jakes
“It’s miserable living someone else’s life, and it is downright suffocating to live beneath your potential.”
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T.D. Jakes
“Avoid getting into isolated groups because you will miss the move of God. Shun cliques because they are the bundles. Endeavor to stay in the mainstream of the move of God.”
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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
“The slower journey allows time for maturity and experience to shape you into the person who comfortably fits into your destiny.”
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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
“When you hold on to your history you do it at the expense of your destiny.”
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T.D. Jakes
“Doctors explain that the cardiac cells are “auto-rhythmic” cells. They actually vibrate and beat together instinctively at the same tempo—before they ever unite with each other and function as the heart!”
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T.D. Jakes
“Some think that emulating those we admire makes us more effective and guarantees the result they exhibit. The goal is not to duplicate someone else’s greatness or purpose, destiny or creativity.”
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T.D. Jakes
