Top 150 Ted Dekker Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “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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102. “Every breathing soul longs to overcome.”

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103. “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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104. “It was her false self that was confused, thinking that it knew what ugly was and stewing in it, trying to be good enough when there was no such thing. The ugliness had been corrected a long time ago through forgiveness. It was time to forgive herself and surrender to the truth. She.”

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105. “Because evil provides his creation with a choice,” the child said as though the concept was very simple indeed. “And because without it, there could be no love.” “Love?” Tom stopped. The boy’s hand slipped out of his. He turned, brow raised. “Love is dependent on evil?” Tom asked. “Did I say that?” A mischievous glint filled the boy’s eyes. “How can there be love without a true choice? Would you suggest that man be stripped of the capacity to love?”

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106. “I’m here to say that you can’t make the troubled waters of life go away by defending yourself against them. You can only walk over those troubled waters if you offer peace to them and leave the safety of your boat.”

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107. “All my books are very spiritual. I started out writing what was most natural to me, many years ago, which is religious, because I grew up in the jungle, the son of missionaries. I want to know, is God real? What’s a priest’s role?”

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108. “It was real. Not your actual father, no, but the one who tells you that you’re not good enough. That you don’t belong. The one we all secretly fear when the lights are off. The one that religion has turned into a god made in their own image, capable of hatred.”

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109. “The good news is, you can love yourself because you, too, are now love. Everything else is of your own making: a lie you believe; a story from an accuser that ravages you and keeps you locked in that cage of hell.”

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110. “Maybe he does show himself to us, but we don’t see. Maybe it’s not our senses that are the problem, but our minds.”

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111. “Beckman Coulter Counter.”

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112. “What love can you possibly need from the world if you are already full of His? None.”

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113. “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.”

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114. “And why does man get angry? Because he feels threatened or wronged. And why does he feel threatened? Because he does not believe he is safe. Why? Because he is afraid of God and so cannot trust him.”

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115. “To know. Not to know about.”

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116. “He who holds his life dear is destroying it; And he who makes his life of no account in this world Will keep it to the life of the ages.” Yeshua.”

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117. “There was no better way to understand life than to live it – if not through your own life, then through another’s. There was once a man who owned a field. Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. Not to read was to turn your back on the wisest minds.”

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118. “It is surrendering what we think we know about the Father so we can truly know him.”

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119. “Release any offense, not only against others but against the world. Find no offense in the waves. Trust Yeshua instead.”

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120. “How, then, does one find and know peace and power in this life when surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses who only pretend to be clean by whitewashing their reputations while pointing fingers of judgment? So many Christians today see a system that seems to have failed them. They have found the promises from their childhood to be suspect, if not empty, and so they are leaving in droves, leaving leaders to scratch their heads.”

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121. “Even the bins looked beautiful to her. They simply were what they were and were doing a splendid job being just that.”

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122. “The only correction you ever really need is in your perception of who you already are as a child of your Father.”

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123. “The Gospels and the Epistles say next to nothing about emotional stability or midlife crises or a bad day at work. But they are practically overflowing with this one word: hope.”

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124. “She hurried to the front door, opened it, and stepped onto the porch. Dark cumulus clouds hovered low over the town, and a warm wind whipped through the trees, carrying stray leaves and dust through the street.”

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125. “He knew that behind the skin of this world, there was another. And in that world the children were laughing.”

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126. “Yeshua shows us the Way to be saved from all that we think threatens us on the dark seas of our lives. Only when we, too, see what He sees can we leave the treasured boat that we think will save us and walk on the troubled waters that we thought would surely drown us.”

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127. “Any time you find yourself worrying about anything, or upset because someone has dishonored or betrayed you, it is only because you have placed your faith in something other than Jesus.”

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

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

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130. “But know that how you see yourself doesn’t define you. How I see you defines you. How you see yourself only defines your experience in the world.”

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131. “Women stood along the.”

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132. “I believed all the right things about God, but could I really let go of everything and trust Him in all things? If so, I would not experience fear. There is no fear in love and God is love.”

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133. “He felt like he was looking at a whole new world. Not only was he a new person, drowned in magic, but the thousands he faced were different.”

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134. “Lack of understanding seemed as valuable to God as understanding. It required man to dip into the black hole of faith. But dipping into the hole was pretty much like walking through the dungeon at times.”

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135. “In the same way, we who are clothed in Christ have great power and none greater than to love – without which, to quote Paul, the rest is nothing. But only in surrendering the old business suit do we see who we really are.”

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136. “Will you follow my path and be the light of the world to shine in that darkness?”

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137. “She blinked and looked back at me. “Lazarus? He’s changed. He was always close to Yeshua, but now they seem to share something words cannot express. At times I think he cannot truly understand what happened to him.” “What does he say?” She hesitated. “He has no fear of death now. None. Truly, I believe he longs to be absent of body once again. He saw much but can explain little. But more, Lazarus knows only love for others now. It seems he has become a child once again.”

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138. “What is it, then, that comprises our deepest selves and gives us worth?”

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139. “She was complete, wholly restored without even a hint of any need for further correction. The.”

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140. “You can only learn who you really are by getting to the end of who you think you are;.”

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141. “So then, we are all equally guilty, every day. How, then, does one find and know peace and power in this life when surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses who only pretend to be clean by whitewashing their reputations while pointing fingers of judgment?”

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142. “He read reports, examined evidence, and poured more reports up the chain than the Pentagon could read. Nothing short of a human sieve. But in the end he was just one small piece on this game board called war. End of story.”

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143. “There was no life above the surface anyway.”

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144. “As Paul wrote, a love that is patient, showing no jealousy or arrogance, keeping no record of wrong, not seeking its own and not provoked by another’s behavior. These are the evidences of true love which flows from those who know the Father and His limitless love for them.”

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145. “So many Christians today see a system in which they cannot measure up and so they feel unworthy. The church seems to have failed them.”

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146. “There’s different ways to be impacted by truth. One is to read the scriptures. Another is to read other works by other people who have read the scriptures, non fiction for example. Another is to do studies. Another is to go to a place of worship. Another thing is to sit and listen to someone who’s speaking. There’s all kinds of ways. Another way is to write. About the truth. Discover the struggle through your character.”

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147. “Yeshua’s way was to protect nothing and let go of all grievance, as.”

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148. “I never doubted my standing in the next life, but I often felt shame in this life, constantly disappointing God in my failure to love as He asked me to love. As such, I was caught in a kind of stupor of unworthiness.”

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149. “Unlike most people,” Fisher said, “questions are what make you tick. Knowing is what gives you a reason to roll out of bed in the morning, because you’re not just in search of knowledge. Facts are never enough. You’re after something else, something more fundamental. You’re after the truth.” Fisher.”

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150. “I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view.”

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