T. D. Jakes Quotes

We should still pray. We have no other authority but to pray.

The critic is a prisoner to his own experiences and perspectives, erroneously believing his limited experiences are the sum of all truth

Contentment comes when you find the people, places, and events in life you were created to impact.

A lot of can't deal with life because they lack the patience to become who they want to be.... Everything happens by process. If you don't go through the process to get it, you don't have the power to keep it.

So though there are many things I would have done differently, I submit to God's sovereignty and His purpose in my life and I thank Him that He brought me the way He brought me and gave me what He gave me when He thought I could handle it.

You cannot embrace your destiny if you do not let go of your history.

As the old African adage says, 'everybody skin to me ain't kin to me'. So you can't exclusively make that the criteria of your job selection and say that it's right when it's black and discrimination when it's white.

Somebody is n the hospital begging God for the opportunity u have right now. Step into your moment.

Too many people want the appearance of winning rather than the practices and hard work that create a true champion.

Real value isn’t in what you own, drive, wear or live. The greater value is found in love and life, health and strength, friends and family!

A church that focuses on the external has lost its passion for souls.

It is God's objective to make your condition line up with your position.

When you start talking about same-sex marriage, you start talking about abortion, and I think those issues are very very important and very interesting and very right for us to talk about, but when we allow those issues to cannibalize all other issues we find ourselves homeless while we debate about it.

God is a businessman. He is not going to do business with someone who shows no sign of potential return. He invests in people who demonstrate an ability to handle what He has given them.

You don't have to sin to be carnal. People who are carnal just means they make all their decisions based on their senses.

The greater the battle - the greater the spoils.

The first time I walked on a stage I knew that was what I was created to do. I knew that there was a calling and a sense of purpose in my life that gave me fulfillment and a sense of destiny.

Faith is the substance of whatever it is that we hope for. The important thing is that we teach that faith is connected to good works and responsibility.

The thing that I've most enjoyed is what I'm learning.

I fully intend to preach the word of God to you until there's a difference between how you walk out of here and how you walked in here.

When people can walk away from you: Let them walk.

No matter how much talent you have in your mind and spirit, if your body is not able to function, you are not able to fulfill your destiny.

You must realize that if you are going to reach the heights you have been called to reach, you may elicit some criticism from those who are jealous, petty or angry because they were left behind.

We pay far too much attention to externals.

I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground.

My views about hell are very traditional.

The thing that binds us together is the commonality of our dreams, not our skin tone.

It's a culture shock to go from obscurity to notoriety in a flash. Its more to it than talent and money; its pressure, stress, enemies, critics; you have to develop relationships and a team. There are all of these things that go along with taking a leap and following your dreams.

When You Hold Onto Your History, You Do It At The Expense Of Your Destiny.

Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.

Basic Instincts It's the way mother birds build nests, and build them high enough to elude

The low-grade plagiarism of popularity will never lead you to true contentment.

Arrogance always destroys opportunity

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

Put the greatest emphasis on what's in you; your knowledge, your wisdom, your inner strength, your character, your tenacity and people will look through the box and always walk away with the product.

Timing is so important! If you are going to be successful in dance, you must be able to respond to rhythm and timing. It's the same in the Spirit. People who don't understand God's timing can become spiritually spastic, trying to make the right things happen at the wrong time. They don't get His rhythm - and everyone can tell they are out of step. They birth things prematurely, threatening the very lives of their God-given dreams.

I started my ministry when I was 19, I was pastoring at 22 and I got married when I was 24, so I was building at such a young age and that fight, that dream and tenacity is still in me.

Don't try to change the package more than you try and change the product.

Forgiveness is a gift you give to yourself

There are rooms for traditional and contemporary and hip hop Gospel music.

If you think down, you will go down. If you think up, you will go up. You’ll always travel in the direction of your thinking.