Top 288 Quotes & Sayings by T. D. Jakes - Page 3

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

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.

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

You will never understand pleasure without pain.

Some young ladies are so starved for male approval that what should be a normal attraction to men is accelerated into an obsessive need for male affirmation. Tragically, these dear ladies allow themselves to be devoured in the arms of men who have neither regard not respect for them as people.

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.

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

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.

Even when things are getting worse instead of better - I believe God!

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.

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.

It's better to wait for something that respects you than to go in so low that it diminishes what you've worked for.

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.

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.

Never make a permanent decision about a temporary situation.

Faith must always pass the test of discouragement.

Once you have confidence in your instincts, you must never allow other people's refusal to believe, or their data to refute, what you instinctively know is true.

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

Put the greatest emphasis on what's in you; your knowledge, your wisdom, your inner strength, your character, your tenacity and people will look through the box and always walk away with the product.

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

You cannot have a private relationship in a public arena. You must look to an inner circle of people who really know you. Don't expect to have that kind of intimate relationship with people who only know you publicly. Do not seek to be understood by the world.

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

When people can walk away from you: Let them walk.

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

When You Hold Onto Your History, You Do It At The Expense Of Your Destiny.

Its not over, until the Lord says its over.

You are just one idea away from what you sow in your brains, in your prophecies that God spoke over your life. You're one idea away. You are not waiting on God - God is waiting on you! I'm sorry, I didn't mean to go on and on about that. I have this stuff in me and I have no place to release it to you because sometimes church people are so spiritual they make me nauseous, because they expect God to do everything.

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.

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.

Success is never an accident it's always on purpose.

I'll give you some symptoms of a sign that your faith is deteriorating-whenever you face all of your problems and you trust only your plans to get you out-it is a sign that your faith is deteriorating.

What woman would not appreciate a God who becomes her attorney, assumes her case, requires no fee, and wins her the 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.

I wasn't trying to be rich or famous; I was trying to figure out what is this thing in me that won't let me sleep that makes me restless and makes me keep pushing. I was trying to discover who I was.

Either your troubles make you better, or they make you bitter. We must always examine what’s going on in our hearts.

You cannot be a Big person with a Small heart

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

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.

You cannot have victory without conflict.

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.

Forgiveness is a gift you give to yourself

You can't have healing without sickness.

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!)

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.

You are no greater than what you believe.

I came to serve notice on the devil- he is a liar!

Don't get stuck on small. Don't stop dreaming, reaching and enhancing what you have.

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.

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.

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

It's the gymnasium of life where you get the workout, the resistance, and you find out things about yourself that you didn't know.

I would tell your generation, wherever you are on the totem poll - whether you're halfway there or at the bottom, don't despise small beginnings; small beginnings get you ready for great things.

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

The low-grade plagiarism of popularity will never lead you to true contentment.

The greater the battle - the greater the spoils.

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

Church only benefits you when you participate in the presence of God.

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

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

Nobody wants to stand behind a parked car. You got to always follow somebody who keeps it moving.