Ted Dekker Quotes - Page 2

Quotes about:

• 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

  Believe, Ocean, Men

  8 Copy quote

• Our lives hang in the balance of unpredictable situations. One minute you're driving down the road whistling a tune, the next moment the car right in front of you spins out of control and crashes. How you prepare for those unpredictable occurrences determines whether you live or die. Always leave an empty lane to your right or left for escape.

  Ted Dekker

  Car, Balance, Tunes

  6 Copy quote

• Suffering is an oxymoron. There is unfathomable peace and satisfaction in suffering for Christ. It is as though you have searched endlessly for your purpose in life and now found it in the most unexpected place: In the death of your flesh. It is certainly a moment worth of laughter and dance. And in the end it is not suffering at all. The apostle Paul recommended that we find joy in it. Was he mad?

  Ted Dekker

  Laughter, Mad, Joy

  5 Copy quote

• Knowing you’re worthless doesn’t give you value any more than knowing you are a captive sets you free.

  Ted Dekker

  Knowing, Giving, Captives

  Ted Dekker (2009). “Bone Man's Daughters”, p.189, Hachette UK

  4 Copy quote

• . . . 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

  Pain, Memories, Reality

  Ted Dekker (2010). “Dekker 4-in-1 Bundle: Black, Showdown, Heaven's Wager & Kiss”, p.844, Thomas Nelson Inc

  5 Copy quote

• 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

  Children, People, Stories

  Ted Dekker (2010). “Dekker 4-in-1 Bundle: Black, Showdown, Heaven's Wager & Kiss”, p.736, Thomas Nelson Inc

  4 Copy quote

• There is a fountain filled with blood drawn from Immanuel's Veins. And those plunged beneath that watery grave to drink of His blood will never be the same.

  Ted Dekker

  Blood, Veins, Drink

  4 Copy quote

• 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.

  Ted Dekker

  Heart, Joy, Secret

  10 Copy quote

• The battle over flesh and blood cannot compare to the battle for the heart.

  Ted Dekker

  Heart, Blood, Battle

  Ted Dekker (2009). “White: The Circle Series”, p.362, Thomas Nelson Inc

  4 Copy quote

• And he wants you to keep that at the front of your mind? He wants you to stay focused on the darkest seasons of your life? How could that possibly do any good?' . . . He wants you to remember who delivered you from that time. That's the point of holding on to memory: delivery, not darkness.

  Ted Dekker

  Memories, Darkness, Mind

  5 Copy quote

• Then as now, evil begins its courtship cloaked in light. And the heart embraces what is should flee. Forgetting it once had a true lover. Love will prove greater than lust. Sacrifice will overcome seduction. And blood will flow.

  Ted Dekker

  Heart, Sacrifice, Light

  4 Copy quote

• In living we die, in dying we live.

  Ted Dekker

  Dying, Dies

  Ted Dekker (2005). “When Heaven Weeps: Newly Repackaged Novel from The Martyr's Song Series”, p.124, Thomas Nelson Inc

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  Reality, People, Drug

  4 Copy quote

• Dust to dust, ashes to ashes. Halleluiah amen, you are dismissed.

  Ted Dekker

  Dust, Ashes, Amen

  4 Copy quote

• I've already said you can't take anything from me that I wouldn't freely give you.

  Ted Dekker

  Giving, Said

  4 Copy quote

• Most believers struggle to really believe in the supernatural as a meaningful, deterministic reality except during moments when they are drawn to it, perhaps during a worship service or while reading a novel like 'Adam.' Being drawn to this truth is the first step to living a life in accordance to this truth.

  Ted Dekker

  Meaningful, Believe, Struggle

  5 Copy quote

• What was once obvious to them was no longer quite as obvious. Why was it that humans lost sight of truth so quickly?

  Ted Dekker

  Sight, Lost, Obvious

  Ted Dekker (2009). “Complete Circle Series: Hardcover Box Set: Box Set”, p.146, Thomas Nelson Inc

  4 Copy quote

• 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?

  Ted Dekker

  Writing, Character, Mean

  6 Copy quote

• Dive deep. Drown willingly

  Ted Dekker

  6 Copy quote

• My writing is a very authentic journey of discovery. I'm going out there to learn who I am. My readers, consequently, take the same journey as my protagonist.

  Ted Dekker

  Writing, Journey, Discovery

  4 Copy quote

• He read reports, examined evidence, and poured more reports up the chain than the Pentagon could read. Nothing short of a human sieve. But in the end he was just one small piece on this game board called war. End of story

  Ted Dekker

  War, Games, Boards

  Ted Dekker (2009). “Bone Man's Daughters”, p.5, Hachette UK

  5 Copy quote

• 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

  Mirrors, Choices, Finding Yourself

  7 Copy quote

• The fact is not kill entire populations is able to infect entire regions of land and control the only cure.

  Ted Dekker

  Land, Population, Able

  4 Copy quote

• Live to discover, as long as discovery leads to a love that comes from the Creator... writing was the mirror to life.

  Ted Dekker

  Writing, Mirrors, Discovery

  Ted Dekker (2010). “Dekker 4-in-1 Bundle: Black, Showdown, Heaven's Wager & Kiss”, p.311, Thomas Nelson Inc

  7 Copy quote

• Keep your words. This pain is no life." "You only feel pain because you're alive, boy!" the keeper thundered. "This is the mystery of it. Life is lived on the ragged edge of the cliff. Fall off and you might die, but run from it and you are already dead!

  Ted Dekker

  Running, Pain, Fall

  19 Copy quote

Page 2 of 5

First

← Prev

1

2

3

4

5

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin