T. D. Jakes famous quotes

Stop watering things that were never meant to grow in your life. Water what works, what's good, what's right. Stop playing around with those dead bones and stuff you can't fix, its over...leave it alone! You're coming into a season of greatness. If you water what's alive and divine, you will see harvest like you've never seen before. Stop wasting water on dead issues, dead relationships, dead people, a dead past. No matter how much you water concrete, you can't grow a garden.
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#Past #Greatness #Garden

When people walk away from you, let them go. Your destiny is never tied to anyone who leaves you, and it doesn't mean they are bad people. It just means that their part in your story is over.
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#Mean #Destiny #People

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.
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#Thinking

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!)
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#Waiting #Poison #Jake

Sometimes what makes us insecure and vulnerable becomes the fuel we need to be overachievers. The antidote for a snakebite is made from the poison, and the thing that made you go backward is the same force that will push you forward.
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#Insecure #Poison #Needs

Not everyone will be happy when you begin to better yourself. Those who are for you will not just celebrate in your triumphs, but they will also pray with you through your tribulations.
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#Triumph #Praying #Better Yourself

Big ideas come from forward thinking people who challenge the norm, think outside the box, and invent the world they see inside rather than submitting to the limitations of current dilemmas
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#Thinking #Ideas #People

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.
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#Dream #Successful #People

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.
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#Heart #Blessing #Mind

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

Don't allow your past or present condition to control you. It's just a process that you're going through to get you to the next level.
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#Past #Levels #Next

We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.
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#Forgiveness #God #Nursing

Nobody wants somebody who wants them for what they have or the position their in- you want somebody who wants you for you. In case it all goes crazy and it all turns to dust. I want somebody who loves me in the welfare line, eating gumbo, eating fish,black eyed peas and rice. I want somebody that loves me. God wants you to love him, not his cars, not his house, not his blessing- love him.
-- T. D. Jakes

#Crazy #Blessing #Dust

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

If you can't figure out your purpose, figure out your passion. For your passion will lead you right into your purpose.
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#Inspirational #Motivation #Passion

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.
-- T. D. Jakes

#Hurt #Past #Air

Come hell or high water you will never take me back to the place I was before. I have been through too much to let life whoop me again. My faith is stronger than it's ever been, my mind is more tenacious than it's ever been, my soul is more absolute.
-- T. D. Jakes

#Water #Soul #Mind

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!
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#Life And Love #Real #Family And Friends

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.
-- T. D. Jakes

#Teaching #Way #Flaws

Worship, from the Latin word meaning "worth-ship", is where we express God's worth to us in our lives.
-- T. D. Jakes

#Latin #Ships #Worship

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...
-- T. D. Jakes

#Mean #Caring #Destiny

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

#Thinking #People #Challenges

Being angry is human. Staying angry is foolish.
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#Foolish #Humans #Angry

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

You don't know how much you've grown- until trouble comes back for an encore.
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#Trouble

No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn't in submission to God!
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#Love #Women #Religion

Don't come into the presence of God to impress Him with something He gave you!
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#Worship #Impress #Presence Of God

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.
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#Hurt #Destiny #Fuel

The world is a university and everyone in it is a teacher. Make sure when you wake up in the morning you go to school.
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#Education #Teacher #Morning

God has invested entirely too much in you for you to be comfortable in anything less than you were created to be.
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#Too Much

You don't even have to be the one praying, but if you get around somebody who really know how to pray-prayer will lift you when you've fallen, prayer will catch you when you've lost your grip, prayer will stop you from going overboard, prayer will bring you out!
-- T. D. Jakes

#Prayer #Praying #Overboard

The most wonderful thing in the world is somebody who knows who they are and knows where they're going and knows what they were created to do
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#Dream #Follow Your Dreams #World

Surround yourself with people whose definition of you is not based on your history, but your destiny.
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#Destiny #People #Definitions

The lifting up of the woman does not require the tearing down of the man. In fact, a strong woman appreciates a strong man. Conversely, a strong man is not intimidated by a strong woman.
-- T. D. Jakes

#Strong Women #Appreciate #Facts

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.
-- T. D. Jakes

#Dream #Passion #Years

When you leave the familiar and enter the unknown, your fear becomes refined by experience and hammered into tools of survival on the anvil of anxiety.
-- T. D. Jakes

#Anxiety #Survival #Anvils

When you were built to be tall, you will endanger your position if you lower your perspective
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#Perspective #Position

As we forge deeper into this issue of forgiveness, we must be prepared to open up and discuss things that bother us before they escalate to a crisis level. We must examine our struggles with forgiveness in which there are not overt offenses or blatant betrayals. I'm convinced that seeds of resentment take root in the silent frustrations that never get discussed. Other people cannot read our minds--or our palms!--and that is why we have tongues to speak.
-- T. D. Jakes

#Betrayal #Struggle #Frustration

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.
-- T. D. Jakes

#People #Matter

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

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

What woman would not appreciate a God who becomes her attorney, assumes her case, requires no fee, and wins her the victory?
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#Winning #Appreciate #Victory

Sometimes we esteem others more important than ourselves. We always become the martyr. It is wonderful to be self-sacrificing, but watch out for self-disdain! If we don’t apply some of the medicine that we use on others to strengthen ourselves, our patients will be healed and we will be dying.
-- T. D. Jakes

#Sacrifice #Self #Medicine

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.
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#Reign #Influence #Authority

But I think my mistakes became the chemistry for my miracles. I think that my tests became my testimonies.
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#Mistake #Thinking #Miracle

A whole woman will always attract a whole man. And when they touch, they will fuse to create a whole marriage. Ultimately, when the time is right, they will produce whole children.
-- T. D. Jakes

#Children #Men #Produce

The low-grade plagiarism of popularity will never lead you to true contentment.
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#Contentment #Popularity #Plagiarism

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.
-- T. D. Jakes

#Way #Purpose #Done

Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.
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#Past #Empowering #Your Past

You will never understand pleasure without pain.
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#Pain #Pleasure #Without Pain

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.
-- T. D. Jakes

#Satisfaction #Fruit #Instinct

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

#Impact #People #Contentment

The right thing at the wrong time will lead to failure.
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#Wrong Time #Right Thing

You cannot be a Big person with a Small heart
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#Inspirational #Heart #Divine

You can wreck your future running from your past.
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#Running #Past #Wrecks

It is important to remember that for every person, there will be a problem. Even more importantly, for every problem, our God has a prescription!
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#Important #Remember #Problem

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

Its not over, until the Lord says its over.
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#Lord #Judgement Day

Life's a university that'll teach you lessons, regardless of your desire to pass the “class” or not, there is always something else to learn
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#Class #Desire #Lessons

Surround yourself with those who won’t compete but will revel in your success and see your ascent as a reflection of their own possibilities.
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#Reflection #Ascent #Possibility

You can't have healing without sickness.
-- T. D. Jakes

#Healing #Sickness

One of the great healing balms of the Holy Spirit is forgiveness. To forgive is to break the link between you and your past.
-- T. D. Jakes

#Healing #Past #Forgiving

There is nothing I'm any more passionate than empowering the next generation.
-- T. D. Jakes

#Empowering #Generations #Passionate

God will give you anything as long as you understand that he is the primary and not the secondary.
-- T. D. Jakes

#Long #Giving #Gods Will

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.
-- T. D. Jakes

#Decision #Tools #Arms

Every goal that you will ever pursue will require a plan of action. Whether you are pursuing your life’s destiny or striving to obtain a particular goal, you must be able to see things as you desire them to be.
-- T. D. Jakes

#Destiny #Goal #Desire

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

There may be challenges or crosses that may have delayed your goals temporarily, but now it’s time to move forward.
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#Moving #Goal #Challenges

I think it is important that we rebuild an atmosphere of forgiveness and civility in every aspect of our lives.
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#Thinking #Atmosphere #Important

You cannot have victory without conflict.
-- T. D. Jakes

#Victory #Conflict

Instincts under pressure crush the carbon of conformity and create diamonds. Each new season of life offers to train us for the next season if we pay attention and adapt.
-- T. D. Jakes

#Inspirational #Crush #Attention

The dream God gives you guarantees, no matter what it looks like now, when it’s all over, your dream will come to pass.
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#Dream #Giving #Over You

Others can inspire you, but ultimately the only thing that empowers you is what lies within you and learning how to better utilize what you’ve been given.
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#Lying #Empowering #Inspire

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.
-- T. D. Jakes

#Differences #Walks #Word Of God

Many of us harbor hidden low self-esteem. We deem everything and everyone more important that ourselves and think that meeting their needs is more important than meeting our own. But if you run out of gas, everyone riding with you will be left stranded.
-- T. D. Jakes

#Running #Self Esteem #Thinking

You are no greater than what you believe.
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#Believe

Both success and struggle are different kinds of trauma.
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#Inspirational #Struggle #Different

a setback is a setup for a comeback
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#Inspirational #Success #Comeback

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

Know when your space is too small for you...and you have to birthed to the next level!
-- T. D. Jakes

#Space #Next #Next Level

Prayer will get you out of a pinch, prayer will get you out of a crises, prayer will get you out of your dilemma, prayer will get you out of your trouble.
-- T. D. Jakes

#Prayer #Trouble #Crisis

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

Progress apart from purpose ends in arrogance.
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#Arrogance #Progress #Purpose

The greater the battle - the greater the spoils.
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#Battle #Spoil

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

Silence isn't golden and it surely doesn't mean consent, so start practicing the art of communication.
-- T. D. Jakes

#Art #Communication #Mean

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.
-- T. D. Jakes

#Promise #Matter #Earth

When You Hold Onto Your History, You Do It At The Expense Of Your Destiny.
-- T. D. Jakes

#Destiny #Expenses #Your Destiny

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.
-- T. D. Jakes

#Love You #People #Disappoint

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.
-- T. D. Jakes

#Thinking #Average #Order

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.
-- T. D. Jakes

#Christian #Easter #Sunday

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.
-- T. D. Jakes

#Destiny #Mind #Body

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.
-- T. D. Jakes

#Thinking #Giving #Firsts

Arrogance always destroys opportunity
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#Opportunity #Arrogance

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

You don't have to be in church service to worship, you can be in your own home. You enhance your spirituality, through the instrument of worship, when you really connect with the invisible, almighty God.
-- T. D. Jakes

#Home #Church #Spirituality

Unforgiveness denies the victim the possibility of parole and leaves them stuck in the prison of what was, incarcerating them in their trauma and relinquishing the chance to escape beyond the pain.
-- T. D. Jakes

#Pain #Chance #Prison

Whenever you face obstacles, crises and dilemmas and your confidence is in your associates more than in God- it is a sign your faith is deteriorating.
-- T. D. Jakes

#Faces #Obstacles #Crisis

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

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

#Positive #Believe #Ends