Quotes about Transformation
You cannot partake of the power of Christ's resurrection unless you are first willing to lay down your own will and desires, and die to all your pride and independence.
— Bishop TD Jakes
It's the nights that I cried myself to sleep and my tears crawled across the bridge of my nose that God most often used to develop me into the person I am today.
— Bishop TD Jakes
If you are searching for the secret of true joy, and victorious Holy Spirit-filled Christ living, the answer is simply this: Die! Die and keep on dying daily until all of you is dead and only Christ lives. Death is the key to life and life more abundantly.
— Bishop TD Jakes
Things that are covered don't heal well.
— Bishop TD Jakes
Instincts under pressure crush the carbon of conformity and create diamonds.
— Bishop TD Jakes
The slower journey allows time for maturity and experience to shape you into the person who comfortably fits into your destiny.
— Bishop TD Jakes
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?
— Bishop TD Jakes
The finished product you see on the peaks is the end result of the resurrection in the valley.
— Bishop TD Jakes
God had a strategy in the ugly places because those were the fields in which he decided to cultivate us.
— Bishop TD Jakes
Many people shun an anointed atmosphere because they know that it will challenge them to change. Preferring to stay where the power of God is not moving, they are never challenged, convicted, or transformed.
— Bishop TD Jakes
God doesn't cut us to kill us but to heal us. It's the difference between experiencing the blade of a dagger in a back-alley attack and the blade of a scalpel in an operating room.
— Bishop TD Jakes
Being planted and being buried may feel similar—if not identical—but the intention leads to very different outcomes.
— Bishop TD Jakes