T. D. Jakes Quotes

If you have achieved any level of success, then pour it into someone else. Success is not success without a successor.

Even when things are getting worse instead of better - I believe God!

Ya'll don't hear what I'm preaching. I'm preaching so good I'm about to 'Amen' myself! Oh!...Oh God! I'm preaching good! Hallelujah!

How you think about your opportunities determines how you will act on them.

Really, when you get down to racism, in or out of the church, it's a heart issue. It's not a head issue. When we actually get to experience each other's ministry, and each other's struggle, and each other's pain, there's a much greater sensitivity.

One of the things about my ministry is that I have never branded myself as being above the people or superior to people.

As much as it pleases God to bless you, there will be moments when everything you try goes up in smoke. There will be moments when the one you counted on most walks away and leaves you groping through blinding tears and wailing questions of why. Plans and goals can be circumvented by the most disappointing of times, leaving you learning the art of patience and the acceptance of a denied request.

You shouldn't shoot at every opportunity that passes by.

The real harvest of life is the outworking of the internal. If there's nothing in there, there's nothing to work out.

Besides, Jesus was a rich man. He had to have been, in order to have supported his disciples and their families during his ministry.

I think the thing that people do wrong today is that they pray for external validation.

Success is never an accident it's always on purpose.

I believe God promotes you when you graduate from the level that you're on.

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.

Faith becomes a bridge between where I am and where I want to go- it is a substance.

I wasn't trying to be rich or famous; I was trying to figure out what is this thing in me that won't let me sleep that makes me restless and makes me keep pushing. I was trying to discover who I was.

I would tell your generation, wherever you are on the totem poll - whether you're halfway there or at the bottom, don't despise small beginnings; small beginnings get you ready for great things.

The art of avoiding extremes is an art that is drawn on the canvas of maturity and painted with the abstract strokes of many experiences.

Greatness is contagious...You'll catch it if you get around it.

I don't dislike anybody. I love everybody.

Your words will tell others what you think. Your actions will tell them what you believe.

I found out that the things that hurt us the most can become the fuel and the catalyst that propel us toward our destiny. It will either make you bitter or it will make you better.

I think the first step is to understand that forgiveness does not exonerate the perpetrator. Forgiveness liberates the victim. It's a gift you give yourself.

Don't come into the presence of God to impress Him with something He gave you!

There are some fires you can't get out of- you've got to go through the fire - you've got to go through the flood - you've got to go through the test - you've got to go through the struggle that you might decrease and he might increase.

Every major move in my life was done instinctively.

There’s something you learn from helping other people with their dreams that prepares you for your own.

There are people who can walk away from you... let them walk. I don't want you to try to talk another person into staying with you, loving you, calling you, caring about you, coming to see you, staying attached to you... Your destiny is never tied to anybody that left. And it doesn't mean that they are a bad person, it just means that their part in the story is over. And you've got to know when people's part in your story is over.

God's grace is painted on the canvas of despair.

No matter where you are in life right now, know this: God put you on this earth to fulfill the promise He has predestined for your life.

I know whatever God means for me to have He'll give it to me. And if it takes too much sweat I don't need it.

You cannot be a Big person with a Small heart

It is the breaking of life that produces the blessing of life.

There are no college courses to build up self-esteem or high school or elementary school. If you don't get those values at a early age, nurtured in your home, you don't get them.

Forgive others so that you may be forgiven.

You cannot have victory without conflict.

I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.

When you are talking about moral issues you are talking about same-sex marriage, which has been relegated over to the states. It's no longer a federal issue and yet, we are dealing with it like it's a federal issue but for a large degree it has become a state issue.

Comfort is the enemy of creativity.

To be unforgiving is like to drink poison and wait for someone else to die!! Rev. TD Jakes (have I said how much I love ya!)

Don't get stuck on small. Don't stop dreaming, reaching and enhancing what you have.

Sometimes we're so busy trying to get things and at the end of the day, all we need is love.

Set the goal to harvest what's in you rather than having a car, house or a relationship.

Faith will get in the ditch with you, faith will go in the prison with you, faith will go into divorce court with you, faith will go in the hospital with you, faith will go in the nursing home with you.

There is no room for God in a mind that's full of self.

To those of us who often procrastinate on the decision we feel intimidated by lack of education or any area of weakness. I relieve you with this statement: It is not how much you know that arms you with the tools of great decision making, but rather how much you ask. Ask questions.

Success is not success without a successor.

As a Christian, Christ died so that we will have eternal life in Him in Heaven. What it looks like doesn't matter, what it smells like doesn't matter, as long as Christ is there it will be Heaven to me.