We have a tendency to want the other person to be a finished product while we give ourselves the grace to evolve.

If you learn how to forgive others for not being strong, then people can learn how to forgive you for your own issues.

It is enough to be responsible for ensuring that our people have the opportunity to graze in the rich grass of God's nutritious word. Beyond that, we must trust the word to take it's effect. It will work faster in some people than in others. the spiritual body grows and metabolizes food at different rates much like the natural body does.

What you can do is embrace what you have right now and to allow it to fill the vacancies of what you didn't get yesterday.

If you don’t find a way to love a flawed person, secretly you’re teaching yourself that you are not lovable because of your flaws.

Both success and struggle are different kinds of trauma.

The T.D. Jakes Relationship Bible: Life Lessons on Relationships from the Inspired Word of God.