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“Turn to the light. Don't fear the shadow it creates.”
― Ted Dekker

“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.”
― Ted Dekker, The Slumber of Christianity: Awakening a Passion for Heaven on Earth

“…It’s not that you don’t have the capacity to accept the truth. You don’t want to accept it, and you hide behind your own logic and intelligence while the truth marches by. Step out and join it, for goodness’’ sake! Shout it out in full step! I believe!”
― Ted Dekker, Saint

“Once born into childlike faith, brimming with belief, typical people begin to lose their faith. Society mocks them. Their friends smirk. They come to change the world, but over time the world changes them. Soon they forget who they were; they forget the faith they once had. Then one day someone tells them the truth, but they don’t want to go back, because they’re comfortable in their new skin. Being a stranger in this world is never easy.”
― Ted Dekker, Saint

“ 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”
― Ted Dekker, Showdown

“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, Showdown

“Dive deep. Drown willingly”
― Ted Dekker, White: The Great Pursuit

“God is obviouslt God, and Heaven obviously exsists, and every word spoken here on earth turns heads up there.”
― Ted Dekker

“Whenever you write on a subject that questions the status quo, there are bound to be many who wrestle with the issues”
― Ted Dekker, The Slumber of Christianity: Awakening a Passion for Heaven on Earth

“The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness cannot understand it”
― Ted Dekker, House

“The light had simply and utterly destroyed the darkness.”
― Ted Dekker, Renegade

“Live to discover, as long as discovery leads to a love that comes from the Creator... writing was the mirror to life.”
― Ted Dekker, Showdown

“We Christian writers must paint evil with the blackest of brushes, not to sow fear, but to call out the monsters to be scattered by our light. If Satan cloaks himself as an angel of white, intent on deceiving the world, any attempt on our parts to minimize evil is only complicit with his strategy... Turn to the light; don’t fear the shadows it creates.”
― Ted Dekker, The Slumber of Christianity: Awakening a Passion for Heaven on Earth

“Pain or perspective, that's the choice.'
. . .
You choose pain - you choose to fight it, deny it, bury it - then yes, the choice is always hard. But you choose perspective - embrace your history, give it credit for the better person it can make you, scars and all - the choice gets easier every time.”
― Ted Dekker, Kiss: She Steals More Than Your Heart

“She was having some difficulty piecing together exactly why she deserved to be in this place, but she wasn't stupid enough to deny that in the end life was cruel and didn't pay attention to what was fair.”
― Ted Dekker, BoneMan's Daughters

“Come hither, my dear. Come hither, that I mightest protectest thou!”
― Ted Dekker, Black: The Birth of Evil

“I BELIEVE!!!!!!!"
- Johnny”
― Ted Dekker, Showdown

“. . . your history is no less important to your survival than your ability to breathe. In the end, you can only determine whether to saturate your memories with pain or with perspective. Forgetting is not an option. I tell you the truth now: Pain was not God's plan for this life. It is a reality, but it is not a part of the plan.”
― Ted Dekker