T. D. Jakes Quotes

The melting pot was always a tension between difference and sameness.

It's not just about me. It's about all of us, accepting one another. We're all different... That's a good thing.

Unity has never meant uniformity.

We must realize that it is best to focus on our oneness, to re emphasize what is the same about each of us rather than dwell on what is different.

Message and policy are very much a part, you know, two parts of the same coin.

Instead of separation and division, all distinctions make for a rich diversity to be celebrated for the sake of the unity that underlies them. We are different so that we can know our need of one another.

In Latin you say: "Repetita iuvant - to repeat is beneficial". The fewer changes made in a country, the more often I repeat my messages. And it works.

Sameness leaves us in peace but it is contradiction that makes us productive.

I'm an imperfect messenger, but the message is perfect.

yesterday someone sent a message that was signed GOD! bernard said. really? dap said. i didn't know he was signed onto the system

Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.

To me, the big thing in being a successful team is repetition of what you're doing, either by word of mouth, blackboard, or specifically by work on the field. You repeat, repeat, repeat as a unit.

On this platform of peace, we can create a language to translate ourselves to ourselves and to each other.

You know harmony only exists in music-isn't that amazing? I think that if you see earth from very far away, the color is blue. That is very interesting because blue is the color of communication.

The opposite is beneficial; from things that differ comes the fairest attunement; all things are born through strife.

Like and equal are two entirely different things.

A community is easily divide when their perception of the same thing is different

the mode of delivering a truth makes, for the most part, as much impression on the mind of the listener as the truth itself.

People may be said to resemble not the bricks of which a house is built, but the pieces of a picture puzzle, each differing in shape, but matching the rest, and thus bringing out the picture.

Understand one another.

If there is any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's ok to be different.

To understand one another, and to grow in charity and truth, we need to pause, to accept and listen to one another. In this way we already begin to experience unity. Unity grows along the way, it never stands still. Unity happens when we walk together.

Greetings, I am pleased to see that we are different. May we together become greater than the sum of both of us.

Having to be different is the same trap as having to be the same.

The message is going to be the same. It's very simple. We're either going to turn to each other or on each other.