Ted Dekker Quotes

“In living we die, in dying we live.”

“Where is God? Where can I find him?" we ask. We don't realize that's like a fish swimming frantically through the ocean in search OF the ocean”

“The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness cannot understand it”

“Turn to the light. Don't fear the shadow it creates.”

“Prayer may just be the most powerful tool mankind has.”
~Blink”

“This was the Great Romance. To love at any cost.”

“Wage war on death. Live for love.”

“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.”

“There’s a reason we are drawn to the light. A reason why we fear darkness. It’s important to be terrified and unnerved about certain things. That way we will choose another path. The path that leads us to truth and love.”

“Dive deep. Drown willingly”

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

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

“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”

“The light had simply and utterly destroyed the darkness.”

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

“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?”

“Anything unnatural was not naturally believed. Faith, in essence, was unnatural.”

“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.”

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

“Evil was predictable, always painfully expected.”

“Will you follow me, Darsal? Will you Silvie? Will you both follow me to hell and back because two fuzzy white bats told me you should?”

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

“I BELIEVE!!!!!!!"
- Johnny”

“There's always risk in life's most rewarding pursuits, isn't there?”

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

“… most men and women will yield to the strong currents sucking them into the seas of ruin. Only the strongest in mind and spirit will swim against that current.”

“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.”

“God is with me. Jesus is near. The Spirit is greater than my fear.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“Light came into the darkness, but the darkness didn't understand it," Susan said. "Look to the light. Only the light can save you from yourself.”

“Dust to dust, ashes to ashes. Halleluiah amen, you are dismissed.”

“Take a leap of faith and see that these troubled waters have no power over you unless you give it to them, and even then they lie.”