Top 150 Ted Dekker Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “And does man simply choose evil, or does he create it?”

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52. “Then as now, evil begins its courtship cloaked in light. And the heart embraces what is should flee. Forgetting it once had a true lover. Love will prove greater than lust. Sacrifice will overcome seduction. And blood will flow.”

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53. “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.”

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

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

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56. “Three of five seals. White: Origin is Infinite. Green: I am the Light of the World. Black: Seeing the Light in Darkness is my Journey.”

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57. “I never write my stories as a wake-up call as such. I simply explore the kinds of situations that I find personally challenging by placing characters into situations that challenge them in similar ways.”

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58. “When the storms of life rise and threaten to swamp you, can you quiet the waves? Can you leave that cherished boat behind and walk on the troubled waters, or do you cling to your boat like the rest of the world, certain you will drown if you step on the deep dark seas that surround you?”

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59. “Do not allow fear to bind you up, dear one. You will only lose what you already have.”

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60. “Love is giving, not taking.”

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61. “And yet when you get right down to it, we’re all the same – rich, poor, old, young, fat, skinny, white, brown, or purple – pick your costume, none of it really matters too much. What does matter is whether or not we take offense when we think we’ve been wronged, regardless of who we think we are or what costume we’re wearing.”

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62. “I’m a skeptic of religious systems, not of the faith. Someday I will be happy to discuss the difference with you.”

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

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64. “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.”

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65. “The people of this world make a god for themselves in their own image, and in doing so they make God far, far, far, too small.”

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

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67. “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.”

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

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69. “This is a labyrinth of wickedness and destruction and pleasure and, above all, love, because in the end it’s all just one big, mind-bending love story, isn’t it?”

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70. “What man would not romance a woman who had invited him? And what woman would not romance a man who had chosen her? It was the nature of the Great Romance.”

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71. “What does matter is whether or not we take offense when we think we’ve been wronged, regardless of who we think we are or what costume we’re wearing.”

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72. “Evil was predictable, always painfully expected.”

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73. “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.”

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74. “The temptation to forget is woven into the fabric of these... costumes.”

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75. “I was lost, starving for intimacy, desperate to be valued, swallowed by a sea of lonely hearts, thinking that perhaps I was the only one who was lost.”

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76. “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.”

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77. “Mine was less a crisis of doctrine than a crisis of experience.”

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78. “We all play our roles. One person plants the seed, another waters it, but it grows only when the season is right.”

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79. “The problem with any philosophical consideration is that once you open a door in your mind, you can never close it. Once you learn something, you can never convince your mind that you didn’t learn it. If you learn the world is round, you can never fit in with a world that thinks it’s flat.”

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80. “When you have a desperate love for God,’ Father Micheal would say, ’the comforts of this world feel like paper flowers. They are easily put aside. If you really have God’s love.”

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81. “Writing wasn’t about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that’s what’s driven me.”

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82. “Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it’s not on our side,” Seth said. “Big ideas are so hard to recognize, so fragile, so easy to kill. People who don’t have them can’t possibly understand.”

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83. “Let go of your right to take offense at all that ever threatened you and all that threatens you still. Release the fear your understanding shows you in this storm. Turn even the other cheek.”

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84. “My first seven novels were contemporary spiritual novels, my next nine had strong elements of fantasy, and now I’m writing thrillers, more as a choice to spread my wings than anything. Writers, like good wine, should mature with age.”

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85. “He did change history. He did, he did!” Gabil hopped again, twice, lost his footing, and toppled to the floor. He bounded to his feet and did a little jig of sorts. “Ha! It’s fascinating! It’s magnicalicious!” “Please, settle down. That’s not even a word.” “Why not?” Gabil said. “If Thomas can change history, I think I have the right to change a few words.”

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86. “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.”

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87. “The incomparable great power we have as believers is tied up in hope. Lose the hope and lose the power.”

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88. “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?”

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89. “She was having some difficulty piecing together exactly why she deserved to be in this place, but she wasn’t stupid enough to deny that in the end life was cruel and didn’t pay attention to what was fair.”

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90. “All fear springs from an aversion to being threatened or wronged on some level. And yet it is written that true love holds no record of wrong.”

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91. “He knew me. He knew me through and through and he found no shame in me.”

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92. “People tend to react to other people in wholesale rather than in detail, right? He’s a minister, so I hate him. She’s beautiful, so I like her. One month later you wake up and realize you have nothing in common with the woman.”

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93. “Don’t mistake man’s weakness for God’s.”

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94. “The problem of pain is not a nail in the coffin of Christianity; it is a crowbar that jerks the lid off the coffin and allows all who are willing to climb out of their sleep.”

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95. “He didn’t think of the rot as a disease. His mind was sharp, but he’d been swallowed by lies that had long ago persuaded him that this was the way all good men should look and move and feel. Pain was natural. The smell of rotting flesh was more a scent of wholesome humanity than a stench.”

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96. “I’ve come to tell you that it’s not your fault,” he said. “Michelle’s beyond suffering, and yet you suffer, trapped in this hell of your own making. Set yourself free, Olivia. Free to love your daughter as she is, not as you wish she could be. In this you will find more peace than you can possibly imagine.”

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

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98. “We all get to discover who we really are at some point, and when we do, it can be quite unsettling.”

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99. “Every breathing soul longs to overcome.”

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100. “Suffering is an oxymoron. There is unfathomable peace and satisfaction in suffering for Christ. It is as though you have searched endlessly for your purpose in life and now found it in the most unexpected place: In the death of your flesh. It is certainly a moment worth of laughter and dance. And in the end it is not suffering at all. The apostle Paul recommended that we find joy in it. Was he mad?”

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