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• It's critical that we use a very dark brush to paint evil. When you bring the light into that darkness as characterized in John 1, that light is very vivid. When it dispels the darkness, we see the brilliance that's there.

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  Dark, Light, Evil

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• It is critical that writers who embrace the light of Christ's redemptive love characterize the darkness arrayed against us in a way that is consistent with its true nature.

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  Light, Darkness, Way

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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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• 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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• 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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• Wage war on death. Live for love.

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  War

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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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• 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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• 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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• In living we die, in dying we live.

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  Dying, Dies

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

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• 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.

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  Heart, Joy, Secret

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

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  Heart, Blood, Battle

  Ted Dekker (2009). “White: The Circle Series”, p.362, 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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• 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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• 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?

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  Laughter, Mad, Joy

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

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  Knowing, Giving, Captives

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

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• The light had simply and utterly destroyed the darkness.

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  Light, Darkness, Destroyed

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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