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T. D. Jakes is a prominent American evangelist, author, and filmmaker. Born on June 9, 1957, he has gained recognition in the Christian community through his ministry and his work in the media industry. Known for his engaging preaching style and his global reach, Jakes has founded The Potter's House, a non-denominational church in Dallas, Texas, and has made significant strides in the entertainment sector through his production company, TDJ Enterprises.

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“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.”

People Ifs Matter Past Grows Stuff Water Issues Alive Greatness Divine Like You Garden Seasons Bones Concrete Harvest Dead People Playing Around

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“If you have the FAITH to believe it, you have the POWER to conceive it!”

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“You must realize that if you are going to reach the heights you have been called to reach, you may elicit some criticism from those who are jealous, petty or angry because they were left behind.”

Ifs May Has Beens Left Realizing Behinds Criticism Angry Jealousy Height Jealous Petty Left Behind Negative People Predestination Pettiness Jealous People

Book:Maximize the Moment: God's Action Plan for Your Life

Source: Maximize the Moment: God's Action Plan for Your Life

“God's grace and mercy have brought you through. Quit acting as if you made it on your own.”

Ifs Made Acting Grace Mercy Quitting Made It God's Grace Grace And Mercy Acting As If

Book:T.D. Jakes Speaks to Men, 3-in-1

Source: T.D. Jakes Speaks to Men, 3-in-1

“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.”

Ifs Mind Heart May Age Used Purpose Plans Stage Willing Blessing Flow Prepared Gods Will Bitter Transition Open Mind

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

Ifs Children Black Teach Our Children Black Women

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“The Hell of Regret He who wins the race cannot run with the pack. And once you get out you can't come back, because caged lions don't mate with free ones! If ever you are going to win, you must forsake the social construct of the cage and all the cage dwellers.”

Ifs Running Winning Social Race Hell Regret Lions Mates Packs Constructs Cages Forsake Caged Dwellers

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“If only we could realize that our purpose is to be caretakers. We are responsible for leading our flock to the place where the grass is green, but it is up to them to eat! We cannot be responsible for how much they digest. We cannot make people mature.”

People Ifs Purpose Peace Realizing Responsible Green Grass Mature Flocks Being Responsible Caretakers

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“I know whatever God means for me to have He'll give it to me. And if it takes too much sweat I don't need it.”

Ifs Knows Needs Giving Mean Too Much Sweat

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“A lot of can't deal with life because they lack the patience to become who they want to be.... Everything happens by process. If you don't go through the process to get it, you don't have the power to keep it.”

Ifs Want Happens Process Deals Things Happen

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“If you can learn to love the imperfect people in your family then it's possible that someone can learn to love a imperfect you.”

People Ifs Our Family Imperfect

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

Ifs God Past Forgiveness Embrace Busy Wounds Nursing Clinging Grudge Old Wounds

Book:Let It Go: Forgive So You Can Be Forgiven

Source: Let It Go: Forgive So You Can Be Forgiven

“If you learn how to forgive others for not being strong, then people can learn how to forgive you for your own issues.”

People Ifs Strong Issues Forgiving How To Forgive

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“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.”

Ifs Self Home Age School Values Courses Self Esteem College High School Esteem Elementary School College Courses

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

Ifs Greatness Contagious

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“I have certain standards for myself so if something drops beneath that standard or if the opportunity doesn't fit who I am authentically at my core - I don't invest time where my brand isn't respected or where what I have to offer isn't appreciated.”

Ifs Certain Opportunity Fit Offers Standards Core Who I Am Brands Appreciated

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“The standard is the standard and whomever walks in the door at the time I need a person in that position who can do that job with excellence and who understands my vision, if they can fulfill it, they got the job whether they're young, old, black, white, male or female.”

Ifs Needs Persons Jobs Young Black Can Do White Walks Vision Doors Position Standards Female Excellence Males Black White

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“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.”

Ifs Knows Believe Happens Parent Taught Things Happen

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

Ifs Real Life Is Work Out Internals Harvest

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“If you're gifted enough, nappy hair, gap teeth, acne face - I don't care what it is, greatness will shine through anything!”

Ifs Enough Care Faces Greatness Hair Shining Don't Care Teeth I Don't Care Gaps Gifted Acne Nappies

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“I think, when we start dealing with heaven or hell issues, what we really need to gravitate toward is that man is an eternal spirit. And if you believe that he is an eternal spirit then all it does, it abandons the body.”

Ifs Thinking Men Needs Believe Doe Body Spirit Heaven Hell Issues Eternal Abandon If You Believe Heaven Or Hell

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“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.”

Ifs Thinking May Important Eye Christian Bits Views Economy Issues Taken Policy Balls Luxury Foreign Policy

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“Instilling values of faith at an early age is important. Listening them through adolescence comes more important than teaching because if you haven't instilled in them at early ages now it's time to listen and get your report card and let them find their way and then as an adult let them stand aside.”

Ifs Way Important Age Values Teaching Havens Listening Adults Cards Reports Adolescence Report Cards

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“If you can't figure out your purpose, figure out your passion. For your passion will lead you right into your purpose.”

Ifs Inspirational Purpose Motivation Passion Figures My Passion Live With Passion Follow Your Passion Your Purpose In Life Passion And Success Purpose And Passion

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

People Ifs Life Inspirational Inspiration One Thing Positive Capacity Positive Inspirational

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“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.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Important Self Running Left Self Esteem Lows Meetings Esteem Gas Riding Harbors Low Self Esteem Stranded

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“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!”

Ifs Knows Lost Prayer Know How Praying Lifts Fallen Overboard

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

Ifs Blessing Curse

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“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.”

People Ifs Stills Love You Manage Love Yourself Shocked Disappoint

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“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.”

Ifs Way Giving Years I Can Dream Life Is Passion Lost Vision Tools Revive Dormant Dreams You Have Redesign

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“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.”

People Ifs Trying Important Dream Happens Able Spirit Given Waiting Steps Successful Birth Things Happen Rhythm Right Thing Being Successful Timing Threatening Wrong Time

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“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.”

Ifs Mind Matter Body Able Spirit Destiny Talent Function Your Body Our Destiny Your Destiny

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“If you have achieved any level of success, then pour it into someone else. Success is not success without a successor.”

Ifs Levels Successors

Book:T.D. Jakes Speaks to Men, 3-in-1

Source: T.D. Jakes Speaks to Men, 3-in-1

“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.”

Ifs Way Persons Teaching Flaws Flawed Lovable

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“You cannot embrace your destiny if you do not let go of your history.”

Ifs Destiny Letting Go Embrace Our Destiny Your Destiny

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“When you were built to be tall, you will endanger your position if you lower your perspective”

Ifs Position Perspective Built Tall

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“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.”

Ifs Thinking Deep Thought Power Of Positive Thinking

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“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.”

Ifs Inspirational Children Pain Strong Hurt Divine Wind Bears Adults Trials Weather Opposition Strong Winds

Book:Woman Thou Art Loosed! 20th Anniversary Expanded Edition: Healing the Wounds of the Past

Source: Woman Thou Art Loosed! 20th Anniversary Expanded Edition: Healing the Wounds of the Past

“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.”

Ifs Important Self Sometimes Use Watches Wonderful Sacrifice Dying Medicine Patient Esteem Martyr Healed Disdain

Book:Hope for Every Moment: 365 Inspirational Thoughts for Every Day of the Year

Source: Hope for Every Moment: 365 Inspirational Thoughts for Every Day of the Year

“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.”

Ifs Inspirational Next Pay Attention Offers Seasons Pressure Train Instinct Pay Attention Crush Conformity Diamond Carbon Under Pressure Seasons Of Life

Author:T. D. Jakes

About the Author

Born: June 9, 1957
Known for: Evangelist
Quotes: 285

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