Top 140 T.D. Jakes Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Many people feed others who can’t feed them, while they completely fail to nourish those who really desire to feed them.”

— T.D. Jakes

102. “Serving the Lord is not always easy or popular. Folks may laugh at you on your job, mocking and making fun of your faith. But once you decide that there’s no turning back, something in your heart rises up and says “no” to the devil and “yes” to the Lord.”

— T.D. Jakes

103. “Destiny will always make someone angry, but better that person be angry with you than for you to be angry with you. I guarantee you will end up an angry person the day you awaken spiritually and realize that you’ve adhered to everyone’s priorities except your own.”

— T.D. Jakes

104. “The very key to knowing your purpose is discovering and celebrating your personal identity.”

— T.D. Jakes

105. “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.”

— T.D. Jakes

106. “God will not let your needs and wants go unattended, especially when you desire to be more like Him.”

— T.D. Jakes

107. “When you live your own dream, you don’t have time to be a hater.”

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108. “God’s will is that we, as His people, be separated unto Him for His purpose. As believers, we should endeavor to pursue that sanctification at any cost.”

— T.D. Jakes

109. “Share your dream with people who want you to succeed.”

— T.D. Jakes

110. “God is quickly fulfilling today all that He has said in the past through His prophets, and is speaking presently through His ministers and servants. We are embarking upon the time of harvest.”

— T.D. Jakes

111. “When you’re in trouble, God will reach into the mess and pull you out.”

— T.D. Jakes

112. “When the Master gives us the vision of what he’s going to do in our lives, He shows us the mountain peaks while He hides the valleys. If you saw the climb you would have to endure to get to the mountaintop, you would abandon the entire trip.”

— T.D. Jakes

113. “Routines without ongoing assessment lead to stagnation and mediocrity.”

— T.D. Jakes

114. “Before you get to the place that is calling you, recognize whom you can talk to about your destiny and whom you can’t. Dream killers will.”

— T.D. Jakes

115. “The slower journey allows time for maturity and experience to shape you into the person who comfortably fits into your destiny.”

— T.D. Jakes

116. “Often after years of deep investment into others we are shocked and disappointed that they simply didn’t get who we really are.”

— T.D. Jakes

117. “When you begin to realize that your past does not necessarily dictate the outcome of your future, then you can release the hurt.”

— T.D. Jakes

118. “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!”

— T.D. Jakes

119. “A church that focuses on the external has lost its passion for souls.”

— T.D. Jakes

120. “When you don’t become fixated on winning the prize or appearing successful, and instead pursue your passions, then you will discover the fulfillment that comes from living by instinct.”

— T.D. Jakes

121. “Don’t let fear block God’s destiny for you.”

— T.D. Jakes

122. “God lets you go through challenges to give you credibility in a certain area and the ability to help someone else out of a situation that you once were in.”

— T.D. Jakes

123. “Do you have any idea who you have the capacity to become? If you were not bound by the confines of your mind, who might you become?”

— T.D. Jakes

124. “Why am I here?” You may have asked the question as you found yourself in the midst of an amazing, divinely orchestrated opportunity, or you may have asked it in reaction to having made the worst mistake of your life.”

— T.D. Jakes

125. “He wants you to offer hope to those being crushed and struggling to understand.”

— T.D. Jakes

126. “We are to work to improve ourselves while at the same time remaining totally dependent on God.”

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127. “Your hindrance? Trying to build your dream without the Dreammaker.”

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128. “Perhaps looking at the forensics of your past can catapult you forward in a way that merely dreaming can never attain!”

— T.D. Jakes

129. “Unfortunately, many of us often spend our lives doing what we were trained to do. Some do what they were asked to do. And most of us do what others need us to do. And all the while, we wonder why the feeling of fulfillment eludes us.”

— T.D. Jakes

130. “Could it be that we allow the conditions in our lives to distract us from the meaning of our lives?”

— T.D. Jakes

131. “You Can’t Tell Everybody One of the saddest realities we must face about life is that everybody is not going to be happy when we prosper. People haters can’t stand your dreaming of a better life, despise your happiness, turn their nose up at you because you take extra care in your speech and appearance. They get angry when you find a better job or a new love. They stop speaking to you when you give up negative behaviors.”

— T.D. Jakes

132. “Our instincts may have even guided us to hide parts of ourselves in order to keep them alive when we were younger.”

— T.D. Jakes

133. “If you have been betrayed or wounded by someone you brought too close, please forgive them. They really were a blessing. You will only be better when you cease to be bitter!”

— T.D. Jakes

134. “Can the wounded heal the hurting?”

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135. “The more your dreams evolve into reality, the closer you get to Destiny, the greater target you become for the negative opinions of others. People who don’t even know you may form impressions about who they think you are and what you do. They will critique whether you’re qualified, intelligent, attractive, competent, sophisticated, or savvy enough for whatever you’re doing. They’ll always conclude that you’re not enough and you have no business going after Destiny. You can’t please a hater.”

— T.D. Jakes

136. “Because we have offered no provision for sons and daughters who fall, many of our Adams and our Eves are hiding in the bushes.”

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137. “Most people are manipulated by the approval of others, the paycheck that supports them, and the lifestyle that has handcuffed them to the brass ring of perceived success. On this path we eventually live like slaves to a man-made system. We chase the goals of others instead of pursuing our own dreams. We anesthetize our despair with the next purchase, pill, or plunder.”

— T.D. Jakes

138. “Soon I was to find that people who had been creative at one stage of growth now seemed empty of ideas – and worse, they seemed not to notice that the ground had moved up under their feet! As I grew and encountered higher ideals and new goals, what had once been acceptable now seemed lethargic at best and lethal if ignored. You can’t take everyone with you just because they were with you where you were before.”

— T.D. Jakes

139. “Instincts under pressure crush the carbon of conformity and create diamonds.”

— T.D. Jakes

140. “Have you ever been guilty of having a condescending attitude about another person’s weakness? How can we dare to think we can access the soul-cleansing blood that delivers us from the cesspool of our secret sins, and then look down on another member of Christ’s Body in disdain?”

— T.D. Jakes