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“A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.”
― Max Lucado

“No Victory Without Suffering”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“…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

“That sound you hear is my dreams crashing and burning.”
― Robin Parrish

“You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word. It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.”
― Winston Churchill

“God loves us. He's watching us, he wants us to succeed, and we'll know someday that he has not left one thing undone for the eternal welfare of each of us. If we only knew it, there are heavenly hosts pulling for us -- friends in heaven that we can't rememer now, who yearn for our victory.”
― Ezra Taft Benson

“Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves”
― Abraham Lincoln, Complete Works - Volume XII

“We all have that moment in life when something terrible happens for the first time. Something so unexpected, so awful, that it takes the magic out of the world. Life becomes harder, colder. And everything we do in our lives, from that day on, is our way of coping with that one moment. We stop living and we merely exist. We either choose to move on from that, or we let it consume us.”
― Robin Parrish, Relentless

“You are my butterfly and refuse to set you free.”
― Shannon Hale

“Love happens when people forgive.”
― Karen Kingsbury, Oceans Apart

“The question isn't who causes something to happen, but rather, whether you see the outcome with His eyes or yours. Whether or not you trust He's got it all in His hands.”
― Susan May Warren, Happily Ever After

“Jesus wanted to show mercy to every single person He met. He wanted to sweep them up and embrace them with His love. But because of His eternal plans for goodness, He can't always do that. I don't know why, but i believe He has a greater good than healing our temporary pain.”
― Susan May Warren, Flee the Night

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

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

“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

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

“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

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

“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

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

“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

“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

“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

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

“Grow up? Get herself straightened out? Her mind reeled from the verbal battering. No matter what she did, her father would tell her she was wrong. Worthless. Undeserving.”
― Ted Dekker, Kiss: She Steals More Than Your Heart

“I think a woman is born with the desire to hear she is beautiful.”
― Ted Dekker, Blink of an Eye

“The battle over flesh and blood cannot compare to the battle for the heart.”
― Ted Dekker, White: The Great Pursuit

“Living is about clucking your tongue and enjoying the sound.
~Slater”
― Ted Dekker, Thr3e

“Everyone, even within a family, is different. We all have different needs, different issues we struggle with. Part of being a family is learning to face those differences, forgive, and accept so that you can move on to love.”
― Susan May Warren, Happily Ever After

“Be still in the presence of the Lord, and wait patiently for Him to act. Don't worry about evil people who prosper or fret about their wicked schemes.”
― Susan May Warren, Happily Ever After