Ted Dekker Quotes - Page 3

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• I would like my readers to close the cover at the end and say, 'Wow, I never thought of it like that before'.

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  Wow, Ends, Reader

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• 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?

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  Pain, Mind, Kind

  Ted Dekker (2010). “Dekker 4-in-1 Bundle: Black, Showdown, Heaven's Wager & Kiss”, p.932, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Evil was predictable, always painfully expected.

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  Evil, Expected, Predictable

  Ted Dekker (2009). “Bone Man's Daughters”, p.200, Hachette UK

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• When I sit down to write a novel, I am exploring my own relationship with God, with the struggle between good and evil, my own purpose.

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  Struggle, Writing, Evil

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• no one wanted to look at the common evils of society. Very few were willing to put aside their own pursuit of happiness long enough to consider the effects of greed and jealousy around them. From what she'd seen, humans were essentially troubled. For every one behind bars, another ten deserved to be behind bars, but that would put one in ten Americans behind bars.

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  Pursuit Of Happiness, Long, Evil

  Ted Dekker (2009). “Bone Man's Daughters”, p.154, Hachette UK

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• 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.

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  Memories, Past, Thinking

  Ted Dekker (2006). “Obsessed”, p.146, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I BELIEVE!!!!!!!" - Johnny

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  Believe, I Believe

  Ted Dekker (2010). “Dekker 4-in-1 Bundle: Black, Showdown, Heaven's Wager & Kiss”, p.448, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Thrillers provide the reader with a safe escape into a dangerous world where the stakes are as high as can be imagined with unpredictable outcomes. It's a perfect genre in which to explore hard issues of good and evil, a mirror that allows the reader to see both the good and not so good in themselves.

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  Mirrors, Dangerous World, Issues

  Interview with Dick Donahue, www.publishersweekly.com. April 20, 2009.

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• 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)

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  Long, Police, Ark

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• 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.

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  Stupid, Together, Attention

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• 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.

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  Growing Up, Father, Mind

  Ted Dekker, Erin Healy (2009). “Kiss”, p.53, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The world didn’t like to look at the dark underside very often. But that didn’t change the ugliness; it only ensured that those who perpetuated the ugliness were left alone to kill and maim and rape.

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  Dark, Looks, World

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• When you step away from it all, you lose perspective.

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  Perspective, Steps, Loses

  Ted Dekker (2009). “Bone Man's Daughters”, p.88, Hachette UK

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• So where does Stan fit in this equation?... We are told to meditate on scripture, even the hald that details the consequences of evil, the consequent of Jericho and all. Not to pretend out God has somehow changed since the time of Christ. Obviously, Paul's idea of admirable and noble is quite different from ours. God forgives us, Bill. We have mocked His victory by whitewashing the enemy for the sake of our neighbirs approval." No Greater Love has any man.

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  Men, Ideas, Evil

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• God is obviouslt God, and Heaven obviously exsists, and every word spoken here on earth turns heads up there.

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  Real, Heaven, Earth

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• 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.

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  People, Skins, One Day

  Ted Dekker (2012). “The Paradise Trilogy”, p.649, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• That’s it?” Jason asked. “You spent an hour talking about how lucky you were to be dying?” No, not dying, Son. Living.

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  Son, Talking, Dying

  Ted Dekker, Bill Bright (2014). “The Caleb Collection: Blessed Child and A Man Called Blessed”, p.156, Harper Collins

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• My idea for BoneMan's Daughters came from the loss of my own daughter when she left home to live with a monster at age 18. I wanted to throttle the man, but she was in love, so all I could do was hope, pray and cry.

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  Daughter, Mother, Home

  Interview with Dick Donahue, www.publishersweekly.com. April 20, 2009.

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• I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view.

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  Writing, Thinking, Our World

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• Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.

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  Writing, Stories, Making Money

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• All my books are very spiritual. I started out writing what was most natural to me, many years ago, which is religious, because I grew up in the jungle, the son of missionaries. I want to know, is God real? What's a priest's role?

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  Spiritual, Religious, Real

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• I always managed to get in trouble, like every kid. But I had to learn a lot of hard lessons on my own, without parents who would nurture me and guard me through that part of life, at a very young age.

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  Kids, Parent, Age

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• I never write my stories as a wake-up call as such. I simply explore the kinds of situations that I find personally challenging by placing characters into situations that challenge them in similar ways.

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  Writing, Character, Challenges

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• If readers, young and old, would take even a moment to reflect on our rapidly shifting culture and ideology, I would be happy. Many leaders of the older generation dismiss emerging culture. Those leaders are at risk of becoming a feeble voice-piece without followers. Most of the younger generation is going deaf to the truth.

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  Voice, Leader, Risk

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• If you could find a way to peel back the skin of this world so to speak, would you really see this supernatural reality that is greater? Is it true that we fight not against flesh and blood but against principalities and powers? Every young person wants to know.

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  Fighting, Reality, Blood

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