T.D. Jakes Quotes

I think its good to worship as a family but its also important to worship as an individual.

I wasn't looking out, I was looking in. I knew something was in me, I just wasn't sure how valuable it was.

I don't dislike anybody. I love everybody.

Thinking is the first step to a revolution in your life that is incredibly significant.

I think that the church has to develop its own agenda, and not allow itself to be consumed by either party to the chagrin of the people that we seek to serve.

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.

Salvation is the root-the resurrection is the fruit.

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

Spend as much time as you can with your mouth shut and your eyes and ears open.

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

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

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

No one keeps the container, they always keep the product.

The thing that binds us together is the commonality of our dreams, not our skin tone.

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

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

Be persistent. Editors change; tastes change; editorial markets change. Too many beginning writers give up too easily.

Guilty she might be. But what human being was not? There were things in her past she needn't be ashamed of, things to be proud of; she wouldn't surrender so meekly to a condemning judgment.

No writer should minimize the factor that affects everyone, but is beyond control: luck.

Losing innocence. Remembering Heaven. That was the essence of Hell

Don't try to change the package more than you try and change the product.

When it comes to bringing an idea that God has given you to fruition, don't wait for it to happen again, you have to get out there and make it happen.

Any great teacher is a great student.

I think it's important that when you're bringing something to the table that you're sure has value, that you don't diminish yourself just so that you can have an opportunity.

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

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.

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

My views about hell are very traditional.

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

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

Instilling values of faith at an early age is important.

I'm so pleased to see us talking gender specific messages that are focusing on men on a way I think it needs to be focused in on and I think it's important.

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

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.

We pay far too much attention to externals.

I'm having an amazing time teaching through the lives of people much like Jesus did.

I think that Jesus is the product.

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

A church that focuses on the external has lost its passion for souls.

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

Just because you help others doesn’t mean you never need help yourself. Doctors can catch colds. Lawyers can be sued. Police officers can call 911.

The best that could be left behind by any man: children who had been brought up to behave responsibly and to believe in something beyond their own self gratification. (The Americans

True repentance isn't just saying, "I'm sorry". It's. saying "I'm sorry, I'll never, ever do that again because my relationship with you means more to me than anything".

If I want to 'f' a guy, I want to 'f' a guy.

Human beings may be inconsistent, but human nature is true to itself

Get Ready, Get Ready!

Ah, Proph." Tom paused. "You did have a nightmare last night.""And here I thought maybe I dreamed it, " Prophet muttered sarcastically.

He could never be anything more than what he was: the inheritor of weakness and unbridled emotion, a creature possessed by the past, and carrying its curse forever into the future--