Latest T. D. Jakes Quotes from Interviews

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• Really, when you get down to racism, in or out of the church, it's a heart issue. It's not a head issue. When we actually get to experience each other's ministry, and each other's struggle, and each other's pain, there's a much greater sensitivity.

  T. D. Jakes

  Pain, Struggle, Heart

  Source: sojo.net

• 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.

  T. D. Jakes

  Party, Thinking, People

  Source: sojo.net

• My children are now adults and just kind of guide them while they allow you to have input in their lives without controlling them the way you did when they were toddlers. These are good steps to use for fathers at each step of their children's lives.

  T. D. Jakes

  Children, Father, Adults

  Source: thechurchladyblogs.com

• Instilling values of faith at an early age is important. Listening them through adolescence comes more important than teaching because if you haven't instilled in them at early ages now it's time to listen and get your report card and let them find their way and then as an adult let them stand aside.

  T. D. Jakes

  Teaching, Listening, Important

  Source: thechurchladyblogs.com

• Instilling values of faith at an early age is important.

  T. D. Jakes

  Important, Age, Values

  Source: thechurchladyblogs.com

• I think being a good Christian father, your responsibility varies with the age and the stage that your children are at.

  T. D. Jakes

  Christian, Children, Father

  Source: thechurchladyblogs.com

• 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.

  T. D. Jakes

  Men, Thinking, Talking

  Source: thechurchladyblogs.com

• The New Birth church is a church unto itself who has a board and it has a membership. How they choose to handle their leadership issues it's not something that we can control regardless of which side you stay on that issue. It is their church issue and their responsibility and their response. And I'm saying what I always said that we should just keep on praying for the New Birth church family.

  T. D. Jakes

  Responsibility, Issues, Church

  Source: thechurchladyblogs.com

• We should still pray. We have no other authority but to pray.

  T. D. Jakes

  Praying, Authority, Should

  Source: thechurchladyblogs.com

• I think we have to find a leader who reflects all of our concerns and not just some of them.

  T. D. Jakes

  Thinking, Leader, Concern

  Source: thechurchladyblogs.com

• When you start talking about same-sex marriage, you start talking about abortion, and I think those issues are very very important and very interesting and very right for us to talk about, but when we allow those issues to cannibalize all other issues we find ourselves homeless while we debate about it.

  T. D. Jakes

  Sex, Thinking, Talking

  Source: thechurchladyblogs.com

• When you are talking about moral issues you are talking about same-sex marriage, which has been relegated over to the states. It's no longer a federal issue and yet, we are dealing with it like it's a federal issue but for a large degree it has become a state issue.

  T. D. Jakes

  Sex, Talking, Issues

  Source: thechurchladyblogs.com

• We have gotten so nuanced into social issues that we fail to understand that China is buying up America, we have fallen into debt in such a pervasive way that social security is compromised, we are living longer than we lived before and in order to secure the kind of healthcare that we need without the deficits on our budget, we need really strong leadership that is focused only on the plethora of issues and not just the traditional concerns that have driven us to the ballot box.

  T. D. Jakes

  Strong, Order, America

  Source: thechurchladyblogs.com

• I think that it's unfortunate that we have allowed politics to use theology to hit areas that we sincerely want to support. But I think that they are using us to some degree because they are using what concerns us to isolate us.

  T. D. Jakes

  Thinking, Support, Degrees

  Source: thechurchladyblogs.com

• I think if we don't fix the economy and if we don't fix foreign policy, we won't have the luxury of dealing with domestic issues that may be important to Christians but we have to understand that in my view, we've taken our eyes off the ball a bit.

  T. D. Jakes

  Christian, Taken, Eye

  Source: thechurchladyblogs.com

• Most of what I have seen, the churches that are growing are the best are those that are nondenominational. But I don't think it's because they are nondenominational. I think that there's a certain method by which they go about reaching out to people that are not as traditional as your mainland churches generally do.

  T. D. Jakes

  Thinking, People, Church

  Source: thechurchladyblogs.com

• The traditional churches are having to transition into new methodologies and new ways of reaching people and they are starting to understand that and looking for ways they can increase their relevance to the contemporary society.

  T. D. Jakes

  People, Church, Transition

  Source: thechurchladyblogs.com

• I think, when we start dealing with heaven or hell issues, what we really need to gravitate toward is that man is an eternal spirit. And if you believe that he is an eternal spirit then all it does, it abandons the body.

  T. D. Jakes

  Believe, Men, Thinking

  Source: thechurchladyblogs.com

• I probably take a pretty traditional view about hell. I'm not very contemporary in terms of that.

  T. D. Jakes

  Views, Hell, Term

  Source: thechurchladyblogs.com

• My views about hell are very traditional.

  T. D. Jakes

  Views, Hell, Traditional

  Source: thechurchladyblogs.com

• The methodologies are always different but the message should be the same.

  T. D. Jakes

  Different, Messages, Methodology

  Source: thechurchladyblogs.com

• There are rooms for traditional and contemporary and hip hop Gospel music.

  T. D. Jakes

  Hip Hop, Rooms, Hips

  Source: thechurchladyblogs.com

• Put the greatest emphasis on what's in you; your knowledge, your wisdom, your inner strength, your character, your tenacity and people will look through the box and always walk away with the product.

  T. D. Jakes

  Character, People, Inner Strength

  "T.D. Jakes Talks: Second Chances, Humble Beginnings & Knowing Your Worth". Interview with Zon D’Amour, lasentinel.net. September 21, 2016.

• No one keeps the container, they always keep the product.

  T. D. Jakes

  Containers, Products

  "T.D. Jakes Talks: Second Chances, Humble Beginnings & Knowing Your Worth". Interview with Zon D’Amour, lasentinel.net. September 21, 2016.

• I don't care how fancy you wrap trash, it's still trash.

  T. D. Jakes

  Care, Fancy, Trash

  "T.D. Jakes Talks: Second Chances, Humble Beginnings & Knowing Your Worth". Interview with Zon D’Amour, lasentinel.net. September 21, 2016.