Top 100 Dekker Quotes
#1. Do you still have Ms. Dekker?
Have her, had her, going to have her again-at least he'd planned on it until the troops had arrived.
Tara Janzen
#2. ... I to you will open The book of a black sin, deep printed in me. ... my disease lies in my soul. Thomas Dekker, The Noble Spanish Soldier
Robert Galbraith
#3. Not exactly,' Richter said. 'We're going to attack an armed road convoy and seize a nuclear weapon that the Russians are trying to deliver to London.'
'Fuck a duck,' Colin Dekker said, and sat down.
James Barrington
#4. - 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.
Ted Dekker
#5. But what was possible or practical had been replaced by a far baser impulse. Hope.
Ted Dekker
#6. We become so used to the familiar that we begin to doubt the unfamiliar, until our eyes are opened and we see.
Ted Dekker
#7. 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.
Ted Dekker
#8. But aren't lovers always tempted to find another? You humans are lovers, yes? So you have this awful tendency to reject him who first loved you and follow after the intoxicating scents.
Ted Dekker
#9. The physical power of real love is staggering, because real forgiveness is staggering ...
Ted Dekker
#10. I always managed to get in trouble, like every kid. But I had to learn a lot of hard lessons on my own, without parents who would nurture me and guard me through that part of life, at a very young age.
Ted Dekker
#11. 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.
Ted Dekker
#13. 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.
Ted Dekker
#14. I was four when I first stood at the helm on my own.
Laura Dekker
#15. Everything I've written up to this point is crap. Now I'm going to write the real one
Ted Dekker
#17. He plunged beneath the surface and knew that these were Elyon's waters, and his lake had no bottom.
Ted Dekker
#18. 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.
Ted Dekker
#19. We've stepped off the cliff and are falling into madness.
Ted Dekker
#20. 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?
Ted Dekker
#21. With average or even minimum ability, success is still very possible.
Jacob Gelt Dekker
#22. I don't write about the same thing every time, everyday, different things are happening out there and if you take the time to look around, you can see that, then you can put it all together and tell the story.
Desmond Dekker
#23. 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.
Ted Dekker
#24. Not evil. Not any more evil than the colored trees are good.Evil and good reside in the heart, not in trees and water.
Ted Dekker
#25. Cause I don't think we ever really get over our childhood. It's always there, waiting.
Ted Dekker
#26. But sometimes imperfect tools lead us toward perfect ends.
Ted Dekker
#28. Sin thrives in the dungeon, but slap it on the table for all to see, and it withers rather quickly.
Ted Dekker
#29. The four rules of writing ... 1. Write to discover. 2. There is no greater discovery than love. 3. All love comes from the Creator. 4. Write what you will.
Ted Dekker
#30. 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.
Ted Dekker
#31. Since I was 10 years old, I knew I wanted to sail around the world.
Laura Dekker
#32. I follow my own head. And if I'm determined to do something, then I'll make sure that I make it happen.
Laura Dekker
#33. Unlike most people," Fisher said, "questions are what make you tick. Knowing is what gives you a reason to roll out of bed in the morning, because you're not just in search of knowledge. Facts are never enough. You're after something else, something more fundamental. You're after the truth." Fisher
Ted Dekker
#35. Some physicists postulate that the past, present, and future all exist simultaneously and that we simply experience whatever present slice of the universe we happen to be in at the moment.
Ted Dekker
#36. Sometimes I'd hear things on other people's records and I say I wanted it on my records, but Leslie Kong said, no, it wasn't right and that it wasn't my style.
Desmond Dekker
#37. Like all of my fictions, 'Sinner' is a mirror. Look into it and you will find yourself. What you do with what you see is your choice.
Ted Dekker
#38. I was born in St. Andrew's and raised in Kingston then I attended the Alpha Boy's school.
Desmond Dekker
#39. Fear is the devil, always, and throws on into darkness. To accept is the best way ~Saba
Ted Dekker
#40. What was once obvious to them was no longer quite as obvious. Why was it that humans lost sight of truth so quickly?
Ted Dekker
#41. She was in love. In love with the same man she'd always been in love with-God save her.
Tara Janzen
#42. The power of belief alone could change the course of history.
Ted Dekker
#43. Come hither, my dear. Come hither, that I mightest protectest thou!
Ted Dekker
#44. This principle is old, but true as fate, Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate.
Thomas Dekker
#45. You can't lose this war, because your Father has already won. This isn't a battle of skin and bones, flesh and blood. This is about your faith, about your identity. When you discover who you truly are, you discover there is no war left to fight at all.
Rachelle Dekker
#46. Hear and believe, even in the storm. When it grows dark, find your song of truth, and then even in the darkness you will know who you are.
Rachelle Dekker
#47. He was as needy as she was. Alvin Finch only wanted to be needed. Loved. And absent of either, he resorted to deflecting his pain by killing. Just like a teenager might resort to deflecting the pain of rejection by cutting. People did a lot of crazy things to be wanted.
Ted Dekker
#48. 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.
Ted Dekker
#49. 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.
Ted Dekker
#50. It's critical that we use a very dark brush to paint evil. When you bring the light into that darkness as characterized in John 1, that light is very vivid. When it dispels the darkness, we see the brilliance that's there.
Ted Dekker
#52. Beautiful. Worthy of the highest love. Powerful and perfect. Beautiful is my daughter.
Rachelle Dekker
#53. 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.
Ted Dekker
#54. I love my parents. But they have their life, and I have mine.
Laura Dekker
#55. And does man simply choose evil, or does he create it?
Ted Dekker
#56. He felt like he was looking at a whole new world. Not only was he a new person, drowned in magic, but the thousands he faced were different. The disease hung on them like dried dung.
Ted Dekker
#57. Turn to the light. Don't fear the shadow it creates.
Ted Dekker
#58. People tend to react to other people in wholesale rather than in detail, right? He's a minister, so I hate him. She's beautiful, so I like her. One month later you wake up and realize you have nothing in common with the woman.
Ted Dekker
#59. This was the Great Romance. To love at any cost.
Ted Dekker
#60. In living we die, in dying we live.
Ted Dekker
#61. Nothing was worse than reading too late and falling asleep two or three pages into a novel.
Ted Dekker
#63. Then my mother was taken ill and died and my father took me to St. Mary's.
Desmond Dekker
#64. If someone tries to follow the narrow way and does not set aside who they think they are and what they think they need, they cannot follow.
Ted Dekker
#65. At sea, I feel comfortable and I come to rest.
Laura Dekker
#66. What matters is discovering myself under the veneer, under the layers that are wrapped around me. There are two 'yous'; there's 'you', the real you, and then there's the image.
Ted Dekker
#67. Let go of your right to take offense at all that ever threatened you and all that threatens you still. Release the fear your understanding shows you in this storm. Turn even the other cheek.
Ted Dekker
#69. It's neither and it's both. That's the perfect kind of art. Labels only detract from the artist's intention.
Ted Dekker
#70. 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.
Ted Dekker
#71. Responsibility is something you take as a matter of fact, like breathing air; living without it is impossible, but do not think about it too much.
Jacob Gelt Dekker
#72. And then ...
And then Thomas Hunter dreamed, and the world would never be the same.
Ted Dekker
#73. How can you hope to recognize good and evil for what they truly are if you have no belief in a moral authority greater than yourself?
Ted Dekker
#74. You want to forget your pain. I mean to tell you that doing that will only cause you more hurt. - Khai
Ted Dekker
#75. Believe in what you can do and be not deterred by what others say.
Jacob Gelt Dekker
#76. Though being freed from sin, most remain slaves, blinded and gagged by their own deception.
Ted Dekker
#77. He knew me. He knew me through and through and he found no shame in me.
Ted Dekker
#78. I believe that there is a perfect plan set before each of us, and when we follow that plan things work out exactly as they should. For example, many would not believe we were meant to be a part of each other's paths, yet here we are
Rachelle Dekker
#79. The problem with any philosophical consideration is that once you open a door in your mind, you can never close it. Once you learn something, you can never convince your mind that you didn't learn it. If you learn the world is round, you can never fit in with a world that thinks it's flat.
Ted Dekker
#80. 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!
Ted Dekker
#81. If my path is with learning and tears and submission, can you not follow that same path?
Ted Dekker
#82. It was really weird dealing with the media. I had no idea how to handle it.
Laura Dekker
#83. ...we all face similar pressures to forget the simple truth of who we are. Particularly the truths that don't jive with what we see around us. As time wears us down we can forget who we once were.
Ted Dekker
#84. How can there be love without a true choice? Would you suggest that man be stripped of the capacity to love?
Ted Dekker
#87. One could keep open secrets only so well before they became a threat to others.
Ted Dekker
#88. 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?
Ted Dekker
#89. When you step away from it all, you lose perspective.
Ted Dekker
#90. Mine was less a crisis of doctrine than a crisis of experience.
Ted Dekker
#91. Where is God? Where can I find him? we ask. We don't realize that's like a fish swimming frantically through the ocean in search OF the ocean
Ted Dekker
#92. People reveal their true character when they're off center.
Ted Dekker
#93. Things will get better if you just hold out long enough.
Desmond Dekker
#95. 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.
Ted Dekker
#96. 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.
Ted Dekker
#97. Austin cleared his throat. Given the choice between being with books or people, he'd always choose books. You could always tell what a book thought without needing to have a confrontation. People, on the other hand, defensively clung to their need to be right no matter how flawed their thinking.
Ted Dekker
#98. In England, I met a couple who run a children's home. They were very kind and showed me many nice spots in England.
Laura Dekker
#99. I am not going to say much about the film 'Maidentrip,' but I won't be representing it, as I am not fully standing behind it.
Laura Dekker
#100. I want simply to learn about the world and live freely.
Laura Dekker
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