Ted Dekker Quotes

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

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

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 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 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.

Adrenaline dulls reason; panic kills it.

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.

This will wreck you! Today, treat everyone you meet as if they're going to be dead by midnight. extend all the kindness and understanding you can, and do it with no thought of any reward.

...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.

In the end you will be your own undoing. You can't escape you.

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.

A person who finds silence and solitude boring is a person who is himself boring, empty of anything worth consideration.

But sometimes imperfect tools lead us toward perfect ends.

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

What matters is discovering myself under the veneer, under the layers that are wrapped around me. There are two 'yous'; there's 'you', the real you, and then there's the image.

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

When I sit down to write a novel, I am exploring my own relationship with God, with the struggle between good and evil, my own purpose.

Dive deep. Drown willingly

My journey is so similar to everyone elses journey, because we all are human. We all have been defeated by the powers of darkness, and we all find redemption in the light of Christ.

Evil was predictable, always painfully expected.

How can you hope to recognize good and evil for what they truly are if you have no belief in a moral authority greater than yourself?

The fact is not kill entire populations is able to infect entire regions of land and control the only cure.

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

In living we die, in dying we live.

There is a fountain filled with blood drawn from Immanuel's Veins. And those plunged beneath that watery grave to drink of His blood will never be the same.

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

When you step away from it all, you lose perspective.

But what was possible or practical had been replaced by a far baser impulse. Hope.

Wage war on death. Live for love.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Perfect, that's our plan then. But you'll have to give up being a priest first. I wouldn't want to just sit around whispering and sipping hot chocolate.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

And to understand how love unfolds, you must understand how Elyon loves.

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

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

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?

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

What was once obvious to them was no longer quite as obvious. Why was it that humans lost sight of truth so quickly?

My writing is a very authentic journey of discovery. I'm going out there to learn who I am. My readers, consequently, take the same journey as my protagonist.

Sin thrives in the dungeon, but slap it on the table for all to see, and it withers rather quickly.