Ted Dekker citations

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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'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.”

“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.”

“Wage war on death. Live for love.”