T. D. Jakes Quotes - Page 9

The pursuit of your life is to come into [your] purpose. And the waste of your life is to miss that purpose.

Focus on your accomplishments , not your failures.

You can wreck your future running from your past.

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.

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.

Progress apart from purpose ends in arrogance.

You are no stronger than your belief system.

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.

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.

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

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

I think the amazing thing about Gospel music is that not only does it lift up the death and resurrection of our Lord, which is consistent with the Gospel, but it is uniquely communicated depending upon the generation.

Here is the amazing thing about Easter; the resurrection Sunday for Christians is this, that Christ in the dying moments on the cross gives us the greatest illustration of forgiveness possible.

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

Both success and struggle are different kinds of trauma.

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

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

Success is not success without a successor.

I can give you the tools to reach the dreams you have inside.

I chose to present myself as one who comes from among the people, and I can be touched by their pain because I have my own.

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

I was looking for excellence in any color or gender it comes in. Some of my top people are African American but not all of them.

And another thing is that I think as a church whenever we become politically driven, we alienate at least 50 percent of the people that God called us to reach with our political orientations.

My children are now adults and just kind of guide them while they allow you to have input in their lives without controlling them the way you did when they were toddlers. These are good steps to use for fathers at each step of their children's lives.

I don't dislike anybody. I love everybody.