Joshua > Joshua's Quotes

“You want proof there's a God? Look outside, watch a sunset.”
― Frank Peretti

“Comfort can be a dangerous thing. You stick around home all the time where it’s safe and nothing ever changes, and before you know it, you get set in your ways and you quit learning, you quit changing, you don’t grow anymore.”
― Frank Peretti, Monster

“Sin is the Monster we love to deny. It is crouching at the door and it wants you, but you must overcome it.”
― Frank Peretti

“Staying alive is nice, but you can’t do that forever. It’s how you live the life you have while you have it.”
― Frank Peretti, Monster

“let's be honest: ignoring is acting, and nothing more - acting as though the words, or actions of your oppresors don't hurt. you hear the words, you feel the insults, and you bear the blows. you can act deaf and impervious to pain, but the stabs and the arrows pierce you anyway.”
― frank peretti

“the depth of a person's character is not measured by his or her physical strength, but by the depth of his or her nobility.”
― Frank Peretti

“The claws of Truth were painful. The lies tore away like scabs, and John bled there for hours, stifling his cries of pain in the sleeve of his overcoat - the overcoat he'd received from his father.”
― Frank E. Peretti

“Killing one person makes you a murderer. Killing a million people makes you a king. Killing them all makes you God.”
― Frank Peretti, House

“Spirit, who are you?' Andy demanded.
Bobby remained silent, his entire body strained, his lips tightly together, his eyes bulging out. He was taking frantic, short breaths through his nose. His face was crimson.
Spirit,' said Andy, 'I command you to tell us who you are in Jesus' name!'
Don't you mention that name!' the spirit hissed and then cursed.
I will mention that name again and again,' said Hank.
You know that name has defeated you.”
― Frank E. Peretti

“a truth our socetiy must not lose sight of and that is the sanctity of every human life and the dignity of every indvidual”
― Frank Peretti

“So what do you do for a living? Staying alive is nice, but you can't do that forever. It's how you live the life you have while you have it.”
― Frank E. Peretti, Monster

“Prac­tice doesn’t make per­fect. It makes bet­ter.”
― Frank Peretti, Illusion

“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

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

“…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

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

“ 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

“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

“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

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

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

“. . . 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