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If you can't figure out your purpose, figure out your passion. For your passion will lead you right into your purpose.
— Bishop TD Jakes
God has invested entirely too much in you for you to be comfortable in anything less than you were created to be.
— Bishop TD Jakes
Progress apart from purpose ends in arrogance.
— Bishop TD Jakes
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.
— Bishop TD Jakes
Wage war on death. Live for love.
— Ted Dekker
The point is, we were created to love beauty. We love beauty because Elyon loves beauty. We love song because Elyon loves song. We love love because Elyon loves love. And we love to be loved because Elyon loves to be loved. In all these ways we are like Elyon. In one way or another, everything we do is tied to this unfolding story of love between us and Elyon.
— Ted Dekker
Suffering is an oxymoron. There is unfathomable peace and satisfaction in suffering for Christ. It is as though you have searched endlessly for your purpose in life and now found it in the most unexpected place: In the death of your flesh. It is certainly a moment worth of laughter and dance. And in the end it is not suffering at all. The apostle Paul recommended that we find joy in it. Was he mad?
— Ted Dekker
Always remember you have been given the power to forgive any offense, and in so doing, remove it from your awareness as far as the east is from the west. True Vision is his gift, allowing you to see no blame; forgiveness is your truest purpose in the life. Seventy times seven, always leaving the old self in a watery grave and rising to find no fault. That's grace, that's true baptism and that's good news...
— Ted Dekker
Every moment of your life, every choice and every circumstance, has carved a path to this very moment," Mom said. "You're always exactly where you're meant to be at precisely the perfect time. You can trust that always. When it's dark and when it's light. In those times when you scream at the sky or when you turn your face up to catch the warmth of the sun—you can trust that.
— Ted Dekker
Pain was not God's plan for this life. It is a reality, but it is not part of the plan." I
— Ted Dekker
He who holds his life dear is destroying it; And he who makes his life of no account in this world Will keep it to the life of the ages." Yeshua
— Ted Dekker
A warrior without pretension was unencumbered by distraction.
— Ted Dekker