T. D. Jakes Quotes

As long as I loved and served Christ I could be anything I wanted to be.

God does things on his time. He wanted me to sit down and wanted me to get some other aspects of my life back in order.

My desire is to strive toward perfection; to be as much in harmony with God's will as possible; to live up to the highest light I have. I'm still not perfect, of course, but I grow daily... I am able to do everything I am called to do, and I do know what I need to know to do my part in the Divine Plan. And I do experience the happiness of living in harmony with God's will for me.

Now is the time to align our goals with God's goals.

I like to take every day just searching my own heart, making sure that I'm on course, and I'm doing what God wants me to do. I'm real good with not looking to the critics and looking straight ahead.

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

What is the highest secret to victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with destiny.

The more the diamond is cut the brighter it sparkles; and in what seems hard dealing, there God has no end in view but to perfect His people.

I just hope people see that if God can do something beautiful with my broken pieces, then God truly has a plan for each and everyone of us.

Every soul is a melody which needs renewing.

Whatever happens at the end of the day, as long as I glorify His name, that's what it's all about.

God wants to bless us where we are.

We are all in Christ's energy. We are all in the divine plan. We are all on the sacred journey, if you want to put it into some very spiritual words. And I like to sing about it, so that's what I do.

The real end of prayer is not so much to get this or that single desire granted, as to put human life into full and joyful conformity with the will of God.

People think that because people do religious stuff, that's all we're supposed to do. But with God's help, everything that He wants me to accomplish, I'm going to do it. It's all about pacing.

So here is what my advice would be: If God has given you a dream, you'd better get cracking because He wants you to use it. That's why He gives them to us in the first place.

God didn't make a mistake when He made you. You need to see yourself as God sees you.

God has a plan for all of us, but He expects us to do our share of the work.

Most importantly, the meaning of spirituality lays the seeds for our destiny and the path we must follow.

Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.

The Cause of God is not a theatrical display that is presented every hour, of which some new diversion may be asked for every day. If it were thus, the Cause of God would become mere child's play.

When you align yourself with God's purpose as described in the Scriptures, something special happens to your life.

We are all on a journey of faith, and we have to polish that faith.

Illness has always brought me nearer to a state of grace.

My faith did not require beauty or belonging - the deeper I went into my practice, the less it required at all.