Top 100 Ted Dekker Quotes
#1. - It's their way. They don't understand suffering like we do. They live with it every day.
- It's not their way. It's the way of Teeleh.
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#2. But what was possible or practical had been replaced by a far baser impulse. Hope.
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#3. They were truly new people. No longer Forest People, certainly not the Horde. They were outcasts. They were the chosen. Those who had died. Those who lived.
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#4. You should know something, Miriam ... God changed our futures yesterday. There's no other explanation for what happened. And it wasn't the first God. If you ever need hlep, you might want to try the second God.
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#6. These were his people
a strange thought. Maybe not his very own people, as in father, mother, brother, sister, but people just like him. He was lost but not so lost after all.
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#7. He plunged beneath the surface and knew that these were Elyon's waters, and his lake had no bottom.
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#8. I was lost, starving for intimacy, desperate to be valued, swallowed by a sea of lonely hearts, thinking that perhaps I was the only one who was lost.
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#9. Know that you are loved, my dear ... Know that you can and will rise above all your fears. I now call you water walker. Water Walker? Yes, you walked through the waters of your fear, didn't you?
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#10. The Great Romance is for you. If only one of you would have followed me, the heavens would not have been able to contain my cries of joy.
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#11. Not evil. Not any more evil than the colored trees are good.Evil and good reside in the heart, not in trees and water.
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#12. Cause I don't think we ever really get over our childhood. It's always there, waiting.
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#13. We call our religion the Great Romance, but really it feels more like a list of rules than anything similar to the Great Romance we once had. But now I think the knowledge of Elyon is starting to work its way into me again
in both realities ... If Elyon's real there, surely God must be real here.
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#14. Come hither, my dear. Come hither, that I mightest protectest thou!
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#15. It seems as though we Christians have developed a nasty habit of leading people into a radical encounter with God's unconditional love, forgiveness, acceptance, and union only to spend the ensuing years teaching them how to become close to God to earn his approval.
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#16. Our challenge isn't in becoming more than we are, because we are already risen and complete. Our challenge is to remember and abide in who we are, each day and each hour.
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#17. I now embrace the pleasures of this life with as much or more passion as I did before, but I do so without expecting those pleasures to provide any more than a foretaste of what is to come - a tremendously liberating knowledge.
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#18. Turn to the light. Don't fear the shadow it creates.
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#19. In living we die, in dying we live.
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#20. When I sit down to write a novel, I am exploring my own relationship with God, with the struggle between good and evil, my own purpose.
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#21. Though being freed from sin, most remain slaves, blinded and gagged by their own deception.
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#22. He knew me. He knew me through and through and he found no shame in me.
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#23. There is indeed good and there is indeed evil, and both walk the earth. But good has little to do with the forms of religion, and evil has as little to do with so much behavior condemned by religion. Both good and evil vie for the passions of the heart. For love!
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#24. How can there be love without a true choice? Would you suggest that man be stripped of the capacity to love?
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#25. When the storms of life rise and threaten to swamp you, can you quiet the waves? Can you leave that cherished boat behind and walk on the troubled waters, or do you cling to your boat like the rest of the world, certain you will drown if you step on the deep dark seas that surround you?
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#26. Mine was less a crisis of doctrine than a crisis of experience.
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#28. I'm here to say that you can't make the troubled waters of life go away by defending yourself against them. You can only walk over those troubled waters if you offer peace to them and leave the safety of your boat.
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#29. And why does man get angry? Because he feels threatened or wronged. And why does he feel threatened? Because he does not believe he is safe. Why? Because he is afraid of God and so cannot trust him.
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#30. Will you follow my path and be the light of the world to shine in that darkness?
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#31. I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view.
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#32. What attention would death pay to his pathetic voice? He was powerless without her.
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#33. What man would not romance a woman who had invited him? And what woman would not romance a man who had chosen her? It was the nature of the Great Romance.
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#34. It was there, beyond the skin of this world, that a cure of ugliness could be found.
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#35. Whoever said that a straighten hand was more dramatic than a healed heart?
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#36. My journey is so similar to everyone else's journey, because we all are human. We all have been defeated by the powers of darkness, and we all find redemption in the light of Christ.
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#37. When you have a desperate love for God,' Father Micheal would say, 'the comforts of this world feel like paper flowers. They are easily put aside. If you really have God's love.
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#38. My idea for 'BoneMan's Daughters' came from the loss of my own daughter when she left home to live with a monster at age 18. I wanted to throttle the man, but she was in love, so all I could do was hope, pray and cry.
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#39. Everyone wanted to create his own history. There was nothing as powerful as the written word; history had taught them all that much.
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#40. It's the sorrow you feel that allows you to crave love. Without the suffering, there would be no true pleasure. Without tears, no joy. Without deficiency, no longing. This is the secret of the human heart, Rom.
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#41. Tears flooded her eyes and her heart beat heavily, but she knew it would be all right, because she knew that in the end the kind of power that was in these Books would never let her down.
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#42. What falls but never breaks; what breaks but never falls?
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#43. Prayer may just be the most powerful tool mankind has."
~Blink
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#44. Look at me, see how I resemble a puddle of dog vomit? Won't you please throw your fingers to your teeth and be wildly fascinated by me?
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#45. He didn't think of the rot as a disease. His mind was sharp, but he'd been swallowed by lies that had long ago persuaded him that this was the way all good men should look and move and feel. Pain was natural. The smell of rotting flesh was more a scent of wholesome humanity than a stench.
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#46. DUMAH "Love your enemies and do what is wonderful to those who hate you. Bless those who curse you and pray over those who take you away by force." Yeshua
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#47. Make sure your soul is attached at all times - this town will steal it in a second, given the chance.
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#48. Only a woman could make so much out of so little. Give them a single fact and they'd fashion it into a story before taking a single breath.
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#49. My research for 'Adam' affected me profoundly, particularly the research into evil's underbelly. We tend not to think about evil until it pokes its head out of the air about us and then it tends to scare us silly. As well it should.
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#50. The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eye is clear, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness.
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#51. In the end you will be your own undoing. You can't escape you.
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#52. Most people die twice: first when they give up on life, and finally when Death comes to take what's his.
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#53. When the world hates you, remember that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world, it would love you. But you do not belong to the world. I have brought you out of the world and that is why it hates you.
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#54. That's it?" Jason asked. "You spent an hour talking about how lucky you were to be dying?"
No, not dying, Son. Living.
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#55. While the older generation is content to sit around and critique culture, that culture is moving beyond them. At some point the traditional church and all of the expressions of that church will become essentially irrelevant.
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#56. Some would say the Creator is a lamb. Some would say he's a lion. Some would say both. The fact is, he is neither a lamb nor a lion. These are fiction. Metaphors. Yet the Creator is both a lamb and a lion. These are both truths.
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#57. Live to discover, as long as discovery leads to a love that comes from the Creator ... writing was the mirror to life.
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#58. Take a leap of faith and see that these troubled waters have no power over you unless you give it to them, and even then they lie.
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#59. As Paul wrote, a love that is patient, showing no jealousy or arrogance, keeping no record of wrong, not seeking its own and not provoked by another's behavior. These are the evidences of true love which flows from those who know the Father and His limitless love for them.
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#60. He read reports, examined evidence, and poured more reports up the chain than the Pentagon could read. Nothing short of a human sieve. But in the end he was just one small piece on this game board called war. End of story
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#61. It's rude to run off a guest.
It's rude to wear out your welcome.
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#62. What love can you possibly need from the world if you are already full of His? None.
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#63. The Gospels and the Epistles say next to nothing about emotional stability or midlife crises or a bad day at work. But they are practically overflowing with this one word: hope.
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#64. But if you look to your Maker, you'll find enough power to kill a thousand Slaters
- Dr. John Francis
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#65. A person who finds silence and solitude boring is a person who is himself boring, empty of anything worth consideration.
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#66. And to understand how love unfolds, you must understand how Elyon loves.
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#67. The only barrier to apprehending the truth is our own unwillingness to see the world as it is instead of how we prefer it to be.
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#68. I'm a skeptic of religious systems, not of the faith. Someday I will be happy to discuss the difference with you.
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#69. When did speaking your beliefs become synonymous with forcing them upon others?
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#70. Never mistake a woman as an opportunity for bliss.
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#71. The incomparable great power we have as believers is tied up in hope. Lose the hope and lose the power.
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#72. she was curious to track down that bird, if only to see that it was free. Or, perhaps more accurately, to know that she was free from that desperate search for identity that had imprisoned her. She was now complete, just as she was. So
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#73. Maybe he does show himself to us, but we don't see. Maybe it's not our senses that are the problem, but our minds.
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#74. Women could be quite crafty, he knew that much. His father said it often. Smarter than men, too, most of the time. You had to know your way around if you wanted to fall in love with a woman.
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#75. Perfect, that's our plan then. But you'll have to give up being a priest first. I wouldn't want to just sit around whispering and sipping hot chocolate.
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#76. Dust to dust, ashes to ashes. Halleluiah amen, you are dismissed.
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#77. Their lust to win the love of mortals away from God knows no bounds.
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#78. The temptation to forget is woven into the fabric of these... costumes.
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#79. Yes, I drank some of the ancient blood and it changed me. If I'm right ... If the vellum is right, the world is dead. Everyone! But I was brought back to life by the blood.
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#80. Just because someone sees the truth doesn't mean they will accept it or allow that truth to change them.
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#81. I think a woman is born with the desire to hear she is beautiful.
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#82. There's a reason we are drawn to the light. A reason why we fear darkness. It's important to be terrified and unnerved about certain things. That way we will choose another path. The path that leads us to truth and love.
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#83. We're far more than just physical beings having a spiritual experience. We're spiritual beings having a temporary physical experience.
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#84. This is a labyrinth of wickedness and destruction and pleasure and, above all, love, because in the end it's all just one big, mind-bending love story, isn't it?
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#85. Lack of understanding seemed as valuable to God as understanding. It required man to dip into the black hole of faith. But dipping into the hole was pretty much like walking through the dungeon at times.
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#86. Fear not, daughter Zion," Stephen whispered. "See, your king is coming, seated on a donkey's colt ... " He spun to me, eyes flashing. "This is written of the Anointed One, in the book of Zechariah. You see, it is him! He orchestrates this with intention!
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#87. Adrenaline dulls reason; panic kills it.
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#88. The day is brimming with freedom. He took another draw of the air. There's nothing like the clean smell of freedom, wouldn't you say Eden?
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#90. I never write my stories as a wake-up call as such. I simply explore the kinds of situations that I find personally challenging by placing characters into situations that challenge them in similar ways.
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#91. What we see may deceive us - the skin may be deceptive - but there has to be one truth, right? It can't all just be a jumble of perceptions. So what really exists out there, beyond what we can see? We're so dependent on the surfaces of what we see. But if we could see past the skin of this world ...
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#92. The world's bumper sticker reads: Life sucks, and then you die. Perhaps Christian bumper stickers should read: Life sucks, but then you find hope and you can't wait to die.
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#93. The people of this world make a god for themselves in their own image, and in doing so they make God far, far, far, too small.
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#94. I studied philosophy, religious studies, and English. My training was writing four full-length novels and hiring an editor to tear them apart. I had enough money to do that, and then rewriting and rewriting and rewriting.
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#95. The problem of pain is not a nail in the coffin of Christianity; it is a crowbar that jerks the lid off the coffin and allows all who are willing to climb out of their sleep.
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#96. His eyes held a subtle light that she could not mistake for anything other than true attraction. The kind that mere friends did not share. She hated it. She loved it. She hated that she loved it.
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#97. The world didn't like to look at the dark underside very often. But that didn't change the ugliness; it only ensured that those who perpetuated the ugliness were left alone to kill and maim and rape.
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#98. Her fear was gone, not only mostly, but completely, because it had been sustained by an illusion that was no longer part of her reality. The
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#99. It is critical that writers who embrace the light of Christ's redemptive love characterize the darkness arrayed against us in a way that is consistent with its true nature.
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#100. Whenever you write on a subject that questions the status quo, there are bound to be many who wrestle with the issues
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