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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

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

“Prayer may just be the most powerful tool mankind has.”
~Blink”
― Ted Dekker

“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

“…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

“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

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

“Who’s to say that it takes something like a drug to mess with your perception of reality? How did Hitler deceive a nation? How can one group of people look at the world and see one thing, and another see something completely different? One sees a town, another sees a desert. One sees beauty, another sees chaos.”
The skin of this world,” he said quietly.”
― Ted Dekker, Skin

“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

“ 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

“You’re pretty sharp, Clive. Do you believe in God?”
Clive smiled. “I don’t know, should I?”
Actually, approaching the matter from a purely logical perspective, yes. All the evidence points to the existence of a creator. The single greatest body of evidence is the dismal failure of man’s desperate attempts to come up with a reasonable alternative, beginning with evolution. I’ve always looked at the universe and seen a creator as plainly as most people who look at the ocean see water.”
― Ted Dekker, Blink

“Anything unnatural was not naturally believed. Faith, in essence, was unnatural.”
― Ted Dekker, Saint

“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

“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

“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

“It was there, beyond the skin of this world, that a cure of ugliness could be found.”
― Ted Dekker, Skin

“. . . 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

“In living we die, in dying we live.”
― Ted Dekker

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

“The pain was so deep and so raw. There were days I would have died just to forget. The problem was, I couldn't figure out how to get her out of my mind. How do you kill that kind of pain?”
― Ted Dekker, Kiss: She Steals More Than Your Heart

“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, Blessed Child

“I've already said you can't take anything from me that I wouldn't freely give you.”
― Ted Dekker, Kiss: She Steals More Than Your Heart

“Evil was predictable, always painfully expected.”
― Ted Dekker, BoneMan's Daughters

“She suddenly began to jump up and down, screaming at the top of her lungs. "The arks are after me! The arks are after me! Help me, the arks are after me!"
....
"The arks! You don't understand, I have the ring and the arks are after me!"
....
(and so the police officer is puzzled long enough for Miriam and Seth to escape)”
― Ted Dekker, Blink

“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, Saint

“What is pure Bill? Or excellent or admirable? The death of a million people in a flood? God evidently through so. He is incapable of acts that are not admirable, and it is He who brought about the Flood. How about the slaying of children in Jericho? There are a few Bible stories that are not as terrible as they are happy. We just prefer to leave out the terrible part, but that only makes the good anemic.”
― Ted Dekker, When Heaven Weeps

“I sell ideas. Actually, if you think about it, everything is really no more than idea. The past is nothing more than a memory, which is one kind of idea. The future is still a hope, another kind of idea. The present is fleeting and becomes a memory before you can put your hands on it. All ideas. I sell ideas.”
― Ted Dekker, Obsessed