List of Ted Dekker Quotes

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.

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.

That’s It?” Jason Asked. “you Spent An Hour Talking About How Lucky You Were To Be Dying?” No, Not Dying, Son. Living.

I Think Everything We Do, On One Level Or Another, As Writers, Most Of Our Writing Is Informed By Our World View.

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.

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.

And To Understand How Love Unfolds, You Must Understand How Elyon Loves.

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.

And Does Man Simply Choose Evil, Or Does He Create It?

I Believe!!!!!!!" - Johnny

The Light Had Simply And Utterly Destroyed The Darkness.

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.