Ted Dekker Quotes

Ted Dekker is an American author of mystery, thriller, and fantasy novels including Thr3e, Obsessed, and the Circle Series. Wikipedia

✵ 24. October 1962  •  Other names تيد ديكر

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Famous Ted Dekker Quotes

“The four rules of writing… 1. Write to discover. 2. There is no greater discovery than love. 3. All love comes from the Creator. 4. Write what you will.”

Ted Dekker book Showdown

Source: Showdown

“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”

Ted Dekker book House

Source: House

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

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

Ted Dekker Quotes about love

“Live to discover, as long as discovery leads to a love that comes from the Creator… writing was the mirror to life.”

Ted Dekker book Showdown

Source: Showdown

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

Source: Black: The Birth of Evil

“Wage war on death. Live for love.”

Ted Dekker book Forbidden

Source: Forbidden

“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.”

Ted Dekker book Forbidden

Source: Forbidden

“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.”

Ted Dekker Quotes

“The world’s bumper sticker reads: Life sucks, and then you die. Perhaps Christian bumper stickers should read: Life sucks, but then you find hope and you can’t wait to die.”

Source: The Slumber of Christianity: Awakening a Passion for Heaven on Earth

“Dive deep. Drown willingly”

Source: White: The Great Pursuit

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

Source: White: The Great Pursuit

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

Source: Blink of an Eye

“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”

Ted Dekker book Showdown

Source: Showdown

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

Source: Renegade

“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?”

Ted Dekker book Kiss

Source: Kiss

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

Ted Dekker book Saint

Source: Saint

“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.”

Ted Dekker book Saint

Source: Saint

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

Ted Dekker book Skin

Source: Skin

“Evil was predictable, always painfully expected.”

Ted Dekker book BoneMan's Daughters

Source: BoneMan's Daughters

“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?”

Ted Dekker book Chosen

Source: Chosen

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

Ted Dekker book Kiss

Source: Kiss

“I BELIEVE!!!!!!!"
- Johnny”

Ted Dekker book Showdown

Source: Showdown

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

Source: Blink of an Eye

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

Source: The Slumber of Christianity: Awakening a Passion for Heaven on Earth

“… 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.”

Source: Red: The Heroic Rescue

“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.”

Ted Dekker book Kiss

Source: Kiss

“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.”

Source: Black: The Birth of Evil

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

Source: Black: The Birth of Evil

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

Source: Blessed Child

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

Ted Dekker book Three

Source: Thr3e

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

Ted Dekker book Three

Source: Thr3e

“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.”

Ted Dekker book House

Variant: The light came into the darkness, and the darkness did not understand it, but that no longer mattered because the light was now obliteration the darkness.
Source: House

“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.”

Source: Water Walker: The Full Story

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