Bishop Jakes Quotes

Never make a permanent decision about a temporary situation.

New levels bring new devils, more favours means more haters

When the bishop farted we were amused to hear about it. Should the ploughboy find treasure we must be told. But when the ploughboy farts... er... keep it to yourself.

Get Ready, Get Ready!

If you can't figure out your purpose, figure out your passion. For your passion will lead you right into your purpose" -Bishop T.D. Jakes

Routine is the enemy of instinct......It's better to change and fail than to settle.

Renew your mind get rid of limiting beliefs.

If God has given you a mission, you must be tough enough to handle what people say and still not be distracted while doing what you were created to do. Are you tough enough? God and the enemy know the truth about you, and remember even great people doing great things for great causes meet negative criticisms. All criticism is not bad, just like all flattery is not good. Many times people don’t criticize you because they are evil; they do it because they have been trained to think anyone who doesn't perceive and see things in the same manner is an enemy. The critic is a prisoner to his own experiences and perspectives, erroneously believing his limited experiences are the sum of all truth. When you acknowledge your critics, you give them your power and validate their words. They are not important until you respond.

Martin Silenus made an expansive gesture. “I was baptized a Lutheran,” he said. “A subset which no longer exists. I helped create Zen Gnosticism before any of your parents were born. I have been a Catholic, a revelationist, a neo-Marxist, an interface zealot, a Bound Shaker, a satanist, a bishop in the Church of Jake’s Nada, and a dues-paying subscriber to the Assured Reincarnation Institute. Now, I am happy to say, I am a simple pagan.” He smiled at everyone. “To a pagan,” he concluded, “the Shrike is a most acceptable deity.

As we grow and go forward, our master Creator may be wooing you instinctively into a place where your intellect can flourish and your heart can rest.

To begin a transformation you must peel back the layers and go to your core.

I've NEVER met anybody who has become incredibly successful in any area of their life until they have suffered, and sweat, and sacrificed and kept their focus and fought through tears and trials and tests. If you have a dream and you commit to it it will come to pass!

preparing to marry Leah. That his father should confer with Bishop Bontrager made not one whit of sense. “Might be best to leave things be, then.” “Keep me in the dark, you mean?” Jonas felt terribly bold. “Please, I must know more. It’s important—has been for years. The hard feelings between my father and Abram have gone on too long . . . and now the problem’s even thornier.” He didn’t feel as if he should blurt out the news about Jake, but he’d obviously gotten the bishop’s attention, for the man leaned forward now, frowning, his blue eyes intent on him. “If you must know . . . it was your father who went to Bishop Bontrager nearly the minute after you presented yourself that first day you returned home. He was the one

Jake flew over the back wall of Henry’s yard, landed near the stairs, and shifted to human. “I will get water for our Meg.

There is no shortcut to excellence.

We are ten gallon people, but we may have been born into families of people who have pint capacities. When you are a ten-gallon person and you want love, you want it on a ten-gallon level. But if you fool around and hook up with a pint person, they could be giving you all that they have — sincerely giving you everything, but it doesn't fill you up, because you're bigger than that.

We are busier than any other generation we have seen in the last three to four hundred years. We are so busy. And we think because we’re busy, we’re effective. But I want you to challenge your schedule for a minute and ask yourself, are you really being effective, or is your life cluttered with all kinds of stuff that demands you, and drains you, and taxes you, and stops you from being your highest and best self? And are you substituting busyness and all the chaos that goes along with busyness for being effective? —Bishop T. D. Jakes

i ask for it and i loose it when am scared, but i still have a feeling that i still have to do it again, but i dont get the start , i guess life is about yourself you just have to grow your start and become the beginning of somebody .

Bishop T. D. JAKES If we can get the clutter out of our mind, if we can get the guilt out of our mind, if we can get the shame out of our mind, if we can get the worry out of our mind, if we can get the busyness out of our mind, then all of a sudden we’re going to have ideas which are seeds. And the seed of an idea gets planted firmly in your mind when you believe in yourself and you believe in your potential.