T. D. Jakes Quotes

Sometimes you come up against a mountain and you end up making the mountain seem bigger than God.

if we hold fast our confidence in Him, but our faith is also, by the exercise, strengthened: and so it comes, that, if we walk with God in any measure of uprightness of heart, the trials of faith will be greater and greater.

There's an antidote to our fears- trust. If we trust God more,we can fear less.

I have never had clarity; what I have always had is trust. So I will pray that you will trust God.

You see, this people [Noah, Abraham, Sarah, Jacob, etc.] simply believed that God existed in the situation they were faced with, and they trusted Him rather than themselves. The result? God said, "That pleases Me." They were men and women just like you and I, which is the most encouraging part of all. We don't find golden haloes, or perfect backgrounds, or sinless lives, we just find people. People who failed, who struggled, who doubted, who experienced hard times and low times in which their faith was eclipsed by doubt. But their lives were basically characterized by faith.

My faith in God is such that I am not afraid.

While unbelief sees the difficulties, faith sees God between itself and them.

Not surprisingly, the place we're most likely to experience testing is exactly where we struggle most to trust God.

Focus on giants - you stumble. Focus on God - Giants tumble.

Let us renew our trust in god, and go forward without fear.

I was never fearful or scared. I knew God had me and my wife and children knew it as well so we just marched.

What is the use of praying if at the very moment of prayer, we have so little confidence in God that we are busy planning our own kind of answer to our prayer?

God may not be there when you want him but he is always on time.

But if you have a solid walk with the Lord, then you won't fear that failure.

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

While your life is the true expression of your faith, whom can you fear?

Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.

I got to that desperate place where nobody could help me but God.

As long as I have my faith in God, I'm good. I know everything else is going to come.

Have faith in God; God has faith in you.

As a Christian, I know my life is in God's hands. He has a plan for me. Therefore, I never worry about tomorrow or never worry about winning or losing football games. That knowledge gives me a lot of composure in tough situations.

The more you try to grip control of your life the more God's gonna untangle that from you. He's going to make things go where you have to rely on Him.

Now my faith in Christ is what gives me confidence for the future. I know that through both good times and bad, He is faithful and will watch over me.

I just need to stay loyal to God and anything can happen.