T. D. Jakes Quotes

It's the gymnasium of life where you get the workout, the resistance, and you find out things about yourself that you didn't know.

Every goal that you will ever pursue will require a plan of action. Whether you are pursuing your life’s destiny or striving to obtain a particular goal, you must be able to see things as you desire them to be.

You don't even have to be the one praying, but if you get around somebody who really know how to pray-prayer will lift you when you've fallen, prayer will catch you when you've lost your grip, prayer will stop you from going overboard, prayer will bring you out!

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.

I probably take a pretty traditional view about hell. I'm not very contemporary in terms of that.

Focus on your accomplishments , not your failures.

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.

But I think my mistakes became the chemistry for my miracles. I think that my tests became my testimonies.

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.

The enemy doesn't care how many days you live as long as you don't live in the days you have.

The right thing at the wrong time will lead to failure.

When it comes to bringing an idea that God has given you to fruition, don't wait for it to happen again, you have to get out there and make it happen.

It's better to wait for something that respects you than to go in so low that it diminishes what you've worked for.

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.

I think it is important that we rebuild an atmosphere of forgiveness and civility in every aspect of our lives.

If you have the capacity to be more than one thing , do everything that's inside of you.

Your greatest failure will precede your greatest success.

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.

You cannot have a private relationship in a public arena. You must look to an inner circle of people who really know you. Don't expect to have that kind of intimate relationship with people who only know you publicly. Do not seek to be understood by the world.

Salvation is the root-the resurrection is the fruit.

The methodologies are always different but the message should be the same.

a setback is a setup for a comeback

There is nothing I'm any more passionate than empowering the next generation.

Some young ladies are so starved for male approval that what should be a normal attraction to men is accelerated into an obsessive need for male affirmation. Tragically, these dear ladies allow themselves to be devoured in the arms of men who have neither regard not respect for them as people.

Surround yourself with people whose definition of you is not based on your history, but your destiny.

There's a connectivity between your generation, my ministry and who I am as a person.

I think being a good Christian father, your responsibility varies with the age and the stage that your children are at.

I want to congratulate all the men out there who are working diligently to be good fathers whether they are stepfathers, or biological fathers or just spiritual fathers.

The pursuit of your life is to come into [your] purpose. And the waste of your life is to miss that purpose.

Instilling values of faith at an early age is important.

I didn't know who I was and I didn't know if what was in me was any good. But my parents taught me to believe in myself and to work until something happens.

You can't have healing without sickness.

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.

All over this nation, all over this world there are people going to church today and they say they are believers, but until you can take what you've been taught and bring it to the place you gave up - you will never be the radical believer that you need to be for the times in which we live.

Progress apart from purpose ends in arrogance.

When you were built to be tall, you will endanger your position if you lower your perspective

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.

My children are now adults and just kind of guide them while they allow you to have input in their lives without controlling them the way you did when they were toddlers. These are good steps to use for fathers at each step of their children's lives.

Eagles fly where lesser birds cannot fly, so eagles can do what lesser birds cannot do.

I can never experience the next realm of glory until I crucify myself.

Excellence requires discomfort.

I think the amazing thing about Gospel music is that not only does it lift up the death and resurrection of our Lord, which is consistent with the Gospel, but it is uniquely communicated depending upon the generation.

I think that Jesus is the product.

Much like the removal of moles and skin lesions is done to prevent them from growing into more serious skin abnormalities, removing minor discord before it becomes a calamity is an important use of our time. Most people don’t like to make waves and they swallow frustration and bury true feelings, not wanting to compromise temporary tranquility, never realizing that massive turmoil doesn’t start out massive—it grows beneath the skin like a cancer that could have been avoided with early detection.

One of the great healing balms of the Holy Spirit is forgiveness. To forgive is to break the link between you and your past.

I'll give you some symptoms of a sign that your faith is deteriorating-whenever you face all of your problems and you trust only your plans to get you out-it is a sign that your faith is deteriorating.

If only we could realize that our purpose is to be caretakers. We are responsible for leading our flock to the place where the grass is green, but it is up to them to eat! We cannot be responsible for how much they digest. We cannot make people mature.

In the midst of the shopping and the wrapping and the arranging of presents under your tree this Christmas, may you not forget the gifts you cannot yet hold in your hands.