T.D. Jakes Quotes

May the passion to be all that God wants you to be sweep across your soul like a gentle breeze.

Faith is your anchor and sustainer in the new season. Faith that the one who called us is faithful. Faith helps you see in the dark. And when you feel like you can't see, Faith steadies your heart to trust what you know. What is true.

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

Worship, from the Latin word meaning "worth-ship", is where we express God's worth to us in our lives.

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.

When you begin to realize that your past does not necessarily dictate the outcome of your future, then you can release the hurt. It is impossible to inhale new air until you exhale the old.

If you can disappoint yourself as much as you love yourself and you still manage to disappoint yourself then why are you shocked when other people that you love disappoint you.

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.

Think about it this way: if you are too predictable in any area of your life, you may be paving the way to your own extinction!

I'm not particularly political. I'm not particularly denominational. I'm not worried about any of that.

When you're living by instinct, then you will naturally enhance everything and everyone around you. In other words, success will come naturally! When both your intellect and instincts are aligned, then producing the fruits of your labors brings satisfaction beyond measure.

Worship plays a major role in the Christian daily life. Throughout Scripture we see worship from David dancing before the Lord to Jesus rejoicing in the Spirit.

Face the giants in your life, slay them, and move on. Do not be daunted by the mistakes and failures in your life.

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

Children are not unforgiving. You can punish them and they will hug you in a few minutes.

Nobody likes hard times, but it's the unpleasant experiences that are often the catalysts to build the character required for our destiny.

The dream God gives you guarantees, no matter what it looks like now, when it's all over, your dream will come to pass.

Stress and worry is a residual of relying on yourself and being your own god, in control of everything. Worship allows us to rely on God's power to steer us through life.

To begin a transformation you must peel back the layers and go to your core.

Never make a permanent decision based on a temporary storm.. No matter how raging the billows are today, remind yourself: "This too shall pass!"

If we have been diligent to hide the Word of God in our hearts, and if we continue to labor over that Word, we can be assured that in the time of harvest we will reap a bountiful reward if we faint not. (See Galatians 6:9.)

It is your passion that empowers you to be able to do that thing you were created to do.

We are the people that we have been waiting for and no one else is coming.

There is a higher power, a higher influence, a God who rules and reigns and controls circumstances and situations that are beyond your area and realm of authority.

When God blesses you, don't let no devil in hell move you out of your place of blessing!

Street cred is hard won and Destiny requires you to pay it forward. God helps you through hard times so you can help someone else.

You are no greater than what you believe.

The people ahead of you, living in the liberty of instinct-guided uniqueness, will welcome you, encourage you, and mentor you. They will inspire you to be a pioneer and not a poser. Only those incarcerated by their unwillingness to listen to their instincts and to take the risks required for success will seek to deter you.

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.

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.

No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn't in submission to God!

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.

God is not preparing the Blessing for YOU, He is preparing YOU for the Blessing

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.

Each day is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift to Him.

Second, the biblical principle of "ask, seek, and knock" is prudent advice for gaining a higher level of access.

Blame unto others only as you would first blame yourself.

If you dont like the way your life is going, redesign it. Redeem the years you lost. Restore your vision, revive your passion for living, and reclaim what was dormant inside of you. I cannot give you the dream but I can give you the tools to reach the dreams you have inside.

Once again, Kirk Franklin takes the church beyond the traditional, transitioning his life's experiences into life lessons. Clearly there is more to this man than great music. You will feel the beat of his heart and faith.

I'm not walking by sight- I'm, walking by faith

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.

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.

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

If you are the smartest person in a room, you are in the wrong room.

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!

When God has a plan for your life, I don't care how much you murmur and complain and kick and fuss and scream and yell. When you know that God has a plan for your life, He got you tied up ... I serve a God who will tie you up when you're acting crazy, tie you up, while you're trying to do your own thing, tie you up while your temper is raging, tie you up, when your ambition is out of control. Sometimes, God will tie you up til the time is right. Nothing will work, your money won't work, your career won't work, the boyfriend will leave, the house will sell, cause when God has you tied up, He's not gonna let you get away. He'll say, Be still and see the salvation of the Lord.

Ignorance is brought about by assumption.

The challenge of the believer is to take the faith that you got in here and take it to the place out there.

Some of the best people with whom you can have a relationship are the people who challenge your thinking.

Progress apart from purpose ends in arrogance.

Arrogance always destroys opportunity

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

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.

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

Why am I here? You may have asked the question as you found yourself in the midst of an amazing, divinely orchestrated opportunity, or you may have asked it in reaction to having made the worst mistake of your life.

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.

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

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

It is possible for you to get a grip on the thing that used to have a grip on you. And instead of it controlling you- you are now controlling it.

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.

There is a difference between discussion and argument. A discussion airs the issues, but an argument alleges charges and appoint blame.

You can wreck your future running from your past.

When Jesus says, 'Take, eat. This is my body that was broken for you,' He says, I want my body in you. (Pause ... shouts and claps) I want my blood in you. And every time you celebrate this rite, it is a reminder that you belong to me, and I belong to you. And he said, 'I will drink no more wine until I drink it new with you and the kingdom of God. Communion is the most romantic ordinance. Eh, Eh, Eh. (He laughs. Pause ... the audience shouts and claps.) It is the most romantic ordinance between two lovers.

First things that a hurting person needs to do is break the habit of using other people as a narcotic to numb the dull aching of an inner void.

When you can't do nothing but pray-you've done a whole lot.

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.

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

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

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.

The moment you start to embrace how you have been formed and fashioned is the moment you step into the very purpose for which you were created.

I think most people who get into their 50s reassess what made sense and what didn't make sense.

Isn't it funny how something that will later be a blessing can be a curse if you get it too soon.

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

When we are placed in a set of circumstances where we have to take initiative and be creative, some of us find it hard to transition. Those people have been trained not to think but to obey orders. They are slaves to the training, unconsciously pledging allegiance to the average. Mentally they recite from the manual of mediocrity.

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

You can't have healing without sickness.

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.

You cannot be a Big person with a Small heart

The Hell of Regret He who wins the race cannot run with the pack. And once you get out you can't come back, because caged lions don't mate with free ones! If ever you are going to win, you
must forsake the social construct of the cage and all the cage dwellers.

My first church had seven members in it, and I have to remember, the rent was $225 a month and I worked for Union Carbide and took the check I made from work to pay for the rent to keep the church open.

In his business, some customers come in and buy a suit, but what they're really buying is confidence for that job interview that's coming up. The older businessman browsing new cuff links and ties is actually looking for a way to show he's made it. The woman shopping for socks and underwear for her husband isn't there to buy socks and underwear-she's there to show her man how special he is, how much she recognizes and appreciates his uniqueness. If she wanted socks and underwear for him, she could go to any department store at the mall. The manager at this men's store realized the psychology of his particular clientele.

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.

Time is a precious commodity and it must be used carefully and judiciously. Your time is worth everything. Time is your greatest weapon, so choose the situations and circumstances that are worth fighting for. Don't waste your time fighting meaningless battles. Meaningless combat won't help your future. Invest your time where it matters. On the way to Destiny, know that there will be battles to fight. Know that what you're fighting for is worth it. Your children, your marriage, your career are always worth fighting for, but even then, you may come to a point when you have to give up an active fight and just let God fight the battle for you.

We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it's absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive.

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.

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.

All of us have not been to a natural prison, but everybody in here has had a spiritual prison.

God gives you the resources for success. But it is up to you to recognize them and use them to their fullest.

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

My father was a Methodist and my mother was a Baptist.

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.

The greater the battle - the greater the spoils.

It does matter where you go to church, it does matter where you worship, it does matter where you lift your head, it does matter where you cry out to God. There is something about the atmosphere. I might be lame, but put me in the atmosphere. I may be drunk, but put me in the atmosphere. I may be weak, but put me in the atmosphere.

Resist your fear; fear will never lead to you a positive end. Go for your faith and what you believe.

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.

Either your troubles make you better, or they make you bitter. We must always examine what's going on in our hearts.

Its not over, until the Lord says its over.

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

You can't just be a recipient of a blessing, you have to do something to make it happen.

You will never understand pleasure without pain.