“How can there be love without a true choice? Would you suggest that man be stripped of the capacity to love?” — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
Live to discover, as long as discovery leads to a love that comes from the Creator... writing was the mirror to life. — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
“Love? You have no understanding that to love is to give, not to take.” — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
And to understand how love unfolds, you must understand how Elyon loves. — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
“The universe was created in the hopes of distilling a portion of genuine love – Janjic” — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
“The physical power of real love is staggering, because real forgiveness is staggering...” — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
“But aren't lovers always tempted to find another? You humans are lovers, yes? So you have this awful tendency to reject him… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
It's the sorrow you feel that allows you to crave love. Without the suffering, there would be no true pleasure. Without tears,… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
“Valerik spit to one side. "We laugh at religion's brand of love, forms and rules that keep the poor feeding from the… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
My idea for 'BoneMan's Daughters' came from the loss of my own daughter when she left home to live with a monster… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
Then as now, evil begins its courtship cloaked in light. And the heart embraces what is should flee. Forgetting it once had… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
“Love can only be found in freedom of choice. And for choice to exist, there must be an alternative to choose. Something… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
It is critical that writers who embrace the light of Christ's redemptive love characterize the darkness arrayed against us in a way… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
“Women could be quite crafty, he knew that much. His father said it often. Smarter than men, too, most of the time.… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
“Elyon was restoring the Great Romance. Teeleh had stolen his first love, but now Justin had reclaimed her. The price had been… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
“The point is, we were created to love beauty. We love beauty because Elyon loves beauty. We love song because Elyon loves… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
“Your lives have always been about the Great Romance, and in the days to come you will understand that like never before.… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
“Consider another core teaching of Jesus. It was he who said that all those who followed him would be known by their… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
For me, writing is an experience. It's an exercise in which I want to discover myself by taking my characters to the… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
For me, writing is an experience. It's an exercise in which I want to discover myself by taking my characters to the… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
To love in any way is to be like a child—it means to be vulnerable, to be wide-eyed, to be selfless. There… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
“Then maybe you can tell me something else. How is it that Elyon can allow evil to exist in the black forest?… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
“Immanuel, God with us-that He would leave the spiritual realm and be present in the flesh and blood in such an act… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
The four rules of writing... 1. Write to discover. 2. There is no greater discovery than love. 3. All love comes from… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
There’s a reason we are drawn to the light. A reason why we fear darkness. It’s important to be terrified and unnerved… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
“I have a confession." "Oh?" "I can't get you off my mind." His statement robbed her of words. Heat spread down the… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
“Remember, Caleb, words are weak instruments of love. They can do many things, but they do not carry the truth like your… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
“My beloved, you have chosen me. You have been courted by my adversary, and you have chosen me. You have answered my… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
So where does Stan fit in this equation?... We are told to meditate on scripture, even the hald that details the consequences… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
Grow up? Get herself straightened out? Her mind reeled from the verbal battering. No matter what she did, her father would tell her she… — Ted Dekker Copy Share
My idea for 'BoneMan's Daughters' came from the loss of my own daughter when she left home to live with a monster at age… — Ted Dekker Copy Share
Who’s to say that it takes something like a drug to mess with your perception of reality? How did Hitler deceive a nation? How… — Ted Dekker Copy Share
“Pape called Basil his sanctuary. In truth we all exist in our own sanctuaries-but I don't mean cathedrals or prisons. I'm talking about our… — Ted Dekker Copy Share
“The physical power of real love is staggering, because real forgiveness is staggering...” — Ted Dekker Copy Share
“The only barrier to apprehending the truth is our own unwillingness to see the world as it is instead of how we prefer it… — Ted Dekker Copy Share
What is pure Bill? Or excellent or admirable? The death of a million people in a flood? God evidently through so. He is incapable… — Ted Dekker Copy Share
It's critical that we use a very dark brush to paint evil. When you bring the light into that darkness as characterized in John… — Ted Dekker Copy Share
Sin thrives in the dungeon, but slap it on the table for all to see, and it withers rather quickly. — Ted Dekker Copy Share
“Elyon was restoring the Great Romance. Teeleh had stolen his first love, but now Justin had reclaimed her. The price had been his own… — Ted Dekker Copy Share
The good news is that even though we walk through this valley of death, we don't have to fear, at least not for ourselves!… — Ted Dekker Copy Share
“We become so used to the familiar that we begin to doubt the unfamiliar, until our eyes are opened and we see .” — Ted Dekker Copy Share
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… — Ted Dekker Copy Share
