T.D. Jakes Quotes

How can we teach our children to respect Black women if Black women don't respect Black women?

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

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.

Forgive others so that you may be forgiven.

Both success and struggle are different kinds of trauma.

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

There are no college courses to build up self-esteem or high school or elementary school. If you don't get those values at a early age, nurtured in your home, you don't get them.

No-one wants to feel like they're constantly auditioning for a place in your life.

Blame unto others only as you would first blame yourself.

You can wreck your future running from your past.

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.

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

We are all dying of life.

Greatness is contagious...You'll catch it if you get around it.

Sometimes we're so busy trying to get things and at the end of the day, all we need is love.

When there's no turning back, your instincts will lead you forward.

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.

What you can do is embrace what you have right now and to allow it to fill the vacancies of what you didn't get yesterday.

Your latter days are supposed to be greater than your former days.

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

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.

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

You are no stronger than your belief system.

Set the goal to harvest what's in you rather than having a car, house or a relationship.

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

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

Focus on your accomplishments , not your failures.

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.

Faith becomes the foundation I'm built on.

When you make a decision to forgive it's a decision that you have to make intellectually.

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.

Revenge isn't always as sweet as it seems

I don't care how fancy you wrap trash, it's still trash.

I believe God promotes you when you graduate from the level that you're on.

Comfort is the enemy of creativity.

Success is not success without a successor.

I don't think that you can let the storms of life overwhelm you. When you do that, you are no better than the craziness that caused you to be under attack.

If someone must be hurt, if it ever becomes necessary to bear pains, weather strong winds, or withstand trials or opposition, let it be adults and not children.

I can never experience the next realm of glory until I crucify myself.

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.

Progress apart from purpose ends in arrogance.

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

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

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.

The myth of the poor Jesus needs to be destroyed, because it's holding people back.

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

How you think about your opportunities determines how you will act on them.

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.

There's a connectivity between your generation, my ministry and who I am as a person.

I think that my preaching style and many of my ideas and ideals about faith are based in both Pentecostal and Baptist background.