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• Perfect, that's our plan then. But you'll have to give up being a priest first. I wouldn't want to just sit around whispering and sipping hot chocolate.

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  Giving Up, Perfect, Chocolate

  Ted Dekker (2011). “The Priest's Graveyard”, p.62, Hachette UK

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• You'll have to learn to control your emotions. They're new, like achild's now, bursting with passion. Never let them fade, or part of you will die. But they cal also destroy you. Hold them dear, but don't let them take hold of you.

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  Passion, Emotion, Bursting

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• And to understand how love unfolds, you must understand how Elyon loves.

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  Ted Dekker (2009). “Complete Circle Series: Hardcover Box Set: Box Set”, p.347, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Some would say the Creator is a lamb. Some would say he's a lion. Some would say both. The fact is, he is neither a lamb nor a lion. These are fiction. Metaphors. Yet the Creator is both a lamb and a lion. These are both truths.

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  Fiction, Lambs, Lions

  Ted Dekker (2011). “Circle Series 4-in-1”, p.240, Thomas Nelson

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• I studied philosophy, religious studies, and English. My training was writing four full-length novels and hiring an editor to tear them apart. I had enough money to do that, and then rewriting and rewriting and rewriting.

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  Religious, Philosophy, Writing

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• Come hither, my dear. Come hither, that I mightest protectest thou!

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  Dear

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• It was there, beyond the skin of this world, that a cure of ugliness could be found.

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  Skins, World, Found

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• 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

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  Baby, Black And White, Circles

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• Whenever you write on a subject that questions the status quo, there are bound to be many who wrestle with the issues

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  Writing, Issues, Status Quo

  Ted Dekker (2005). “The Slumber of Christianity: Awakening a Passion for Heaven on Earth”, p.82, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Anything unnatural was not naturally believed. Faith, in essence, was unnatural.

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  Essence, Unnatural

  Ted Dekker (2012). “The Paradise Trilogy”, p.634, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The light had simply and utterly destroyed the darkness.

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  Light, Darkness, Destroyed

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• You should know something, Miriam.... God changed our futures yesterday. There's no other explanation for what happened. And it wasn't the first God. If you ever need hlep, you might want to try the second God.

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  Yesterday, Trying, Needs

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• 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.

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  Mean, Men, True Identity

  Ted Dekker (2008). “Saint: A Paradise Novel”, p.342, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• If Slater were someone else, Kevin would merely be the poor victim of a horrible plot. Unless he was killed by Slater, in which case he would be the dead victim of a horrible plot

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  Would Be, Plot, Kevin

  Ted Dekker (2008). “Dekker 2 in 1 (Obsessed & Three)”, p.287, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I think a woman is born with the desire to hear she is beautiful.

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  Beautiful, Thinking, Desire

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• There’s different ways to be impacted by truth. One is to read the scriptures. Another is to read other works by other people who have read the scriptures, non fiction for example. Another is to do studies. Another is to go to a place of worship. Another thing is to sit and listen to someone who’s speaking. There’s all kinds of ways. Another way is to write. About the truth. Discover the struggle through your character.

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  Struggle, Writing, Character

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• The problem with any philosophical consideration is that once you open a door in your mind, you can never close it. Once you learn something, you can never convince your mind that you didn't learn it. If you learn the world is round, you can never fit in with a world that thinks it's flat.

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  Philosophical, Thinking, Doors

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• Living is about clucking your tongue and enjoying the sound. ~Slater

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  Sound, Tongue, Enjoy

  Ted Dekker (2008). “Dekker 2 in 1 (Obsessed & Three)”, p.81, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Wage war on death. Live for love.

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  War

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• But what was possible or practical had been replaced by a far baser impulse. Hope.

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  Impulse, Practicals, Replaced

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• This will wreck you! Today, treat everyone you meet as if they're going to be dead by midnight. extend all the kindness and understanding you can, and do it with no thought of any reward.

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  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Ted Dekker from Jul 14, 2012

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• And does man simply choose evil, or does he create it?

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  Men, Evil, Doe

  Ted Dekker (2008). “Dekker 2 in 1 (Obsessed & Three)”, p.2, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• My journey is so similar to everyone elses journey, because we all are human. We all have been defeated by the powers of darkness, and we all find redemption in the light of Christ.

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  Journey, Light, Darkness

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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. It's informed by our own understanding of spirituality; things that matter, things that are important to us. I write about things that matter for me.

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  Writing, Thinking, Views

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• He was as needy as she was. Alvin Finch only wanted to be needed. Loved. And absent of either, he resorted to deflecting his pain by killing. Just like a teenager might resort to deflecting the pain of rejection by cutting. People did a lot of crazy things to be wanted.

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  Pain, Crazy, Teenager

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