Ted Dekker quotes - page 2

You never read Spider-Man? Accepting your true identity means understanding that you are a stranger to this world. A freak, ostracized by the very people you want to help. (Ted Dekker)
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. View quote
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It was there, beyond the skin of this world, that a cure of ugliness could be found. View quote
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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! View quote
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...most men and women will yield to the strong currents sucking them into the seas of ruin. Only the strongest in mind and spirit will swim against that current. View quote
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Live to discover, as long as discovery leads to a love that comes from the Creator... writing was the mirror to life. View quote
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For me, writing is an experience. It's an exercise in which I want to discover myself by taking my characters to the edges of human experience, to the edges of themselves and then, asking certain questions - about love, what does it mean to love? What's beauty? What is true beauty? What does it mean to be insane - crazy? View quote
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For me, writing is an experience. It's an exercise in which I want to discover myself by taking my characters to the edges of human experience, to the edges of themselves and then, asking certain questions - about love, what does it mean to love? What's beauty? What is true beauty? View quote
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I BELIEVE!!!!!!!" - Johnny. View quote
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Come hither, my dear. Come hither, that I mightest protectest thou! View quote
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That's it?” Jason asked. "You spent an hour talking about how lucky you were to be dying?” No, not dying, Son. Living. (Ted Dekker)
This was the Great Romance. To love at any cost. View quote
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And does man simply choose evil, or does he create it? View quote
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Light came into the darkness, but the darkness didn't understand it," Susan said. "Look to the light. Only the light can save you from yourself. View quote
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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. View quote
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Dive deep. Drown willingly. View quote
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Born of Black and White, Eaten with worms, I'm a Saint, a Sinner, a Siren of the Word, The Circle knows me, the rest just wanna trip on Grace Juice, Baby Showdown at midnight. View quote
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Anything unnatural was not naturally believed. Faith, in essence, was unnatural. View quote
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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. View quote
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I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view. View quote
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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. (Ted Dekker)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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