T. D. Jakes Quotes - Page 11

I raised five children. They all have different personalities. All of them have different issues, different levels of success. That was a learning experience for me.

The traditional churches are having to transition into new methodologies and new ways of reaching people and they are starting to understand that and looking for ways they can increase their relevance to the contemporary society.

I was raised in the Baptist church... but I didn't really have a real committed experience with Christ until my father died.

I grew up in hospitals. My father was sick. So I grew up in hospitals from the age of 10. Got to see a lot of suffering.

I think if we don't fix the economy and if we don't fix foreign policy, we won't have the luxury of dealing with domestic issues that may be important to Christians but we have to understand that in my view, we've taken our eyes off the ball a bit.

Salvation is the root-the resurrection is the fruit.

The brilliance of morning is in sharp contrast with the darkness of night" - Woman thou art loosed

My church is fifty percent millennials. There's a connectivity between millennials and I.

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

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.

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

Most of what I have seen, the churches that are growing are the best are those that are nondenominational. But I don't think it's because they are nondenominational. I think that there's a certain method by which they go about reaching out to people that are not as traditional as your mainland churches generally do.

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

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!

I actually grew up playing the piano in the church and was deeply involved in music ministry.

It's better to gather in righteousness than fellowship with darkness.

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

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

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

The New Birth church is a church unto itself who has a board and it has a membership. How they choose to handle their leadership issues it's not something that we can control regardless of which side you stay on that issue. It is their church issue and their responsibility and their response. And I'm saying what I always said that we should just keep on praying for the New Birth church family.

My views about hell are very traditional.

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.

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

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

I think we have to find a leader who reflects all of our concerns and not just some of them.