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I think being a good Christian father, your responsibility varies with the age and the stage that your children are at.
The dream God gives you guarantees, no matter what it looks like now, when it’s all over, your dream will come to pass.
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.
One of the things about my ministry is that I have never branded myself as being above the people or superior to people.
When my father died, I had a real experience with Christ, a real conversion with Christ and I had it in a Oneness church.
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.
You don't have to sin to be carnal. People who are carnal just means they make all their decisions based on their senses.
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.
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.
If you're gifted enough, nappy hair, gap teeth, acne face - I don't care what it is, greatness will shine through anything!
I was raised in the Baptist church... but I didn't really have a real committed experience with Christ until my father died.
I don't care how cheap the box is that you put a diamond ring in, nothing about the box diminishes the value of the content.
What woman would not appreciate a God who becomes her attorney, assumes her case, requires no fee, and wins her the victory?
One of the great healing balms of the Holy Spirit is forgiveness. To forgive is to break the link between you and your past.
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!)
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.
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.
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.
I think that my preaching style and many of my ideas and ideals about faith are based in both Pentecostal and Baptist background.
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.
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.
Besides, Jesus was a rich man. He had to have been, in order to have supported his disciples and their families during his ministry.
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!
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.
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.
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.
The critic is a prisoner to his own experiences and perspectives, erroneously believing his limited experiences are the sum of all truth
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.
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.
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!
You’d be surprised at the things that look great on the outside but are dysfunctional on the inside. Be sure to function as good as you look
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
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.
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
Never make a permanent decision based on a temporary storm.. No matter how raging the billows are today, remind yourself: "This too shall pass!"
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!
It is possible for you to get a grip on the thing that used to have a grip on you. And instead of it controlling you- you are now controlling it.
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.
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.
Faith is the substance of whatever it is that we hope for. The important thing is that we teach that faith is connected to good works and responsibility.
I believe it is our attitude that determines our altitude. It is our attitude that allows us to soar above those things that would otherwise overcome us.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.