While the older generation is content to sit around and critique culture, that culture is moving beyond them. At some point the… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
I studied philosophy, religious studies, and English. My training was writing four full-length novels and hiring an editor to tear them apart.… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
“We’re far more than just physical beings having a spiritual experience. We’re spiritual beings having a temporary physical experience.” — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
“I’m a skeptic of religious systems, not of the faith. Someday I will be happy to discuss the difference with you.” — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
All my books are very spiritual. I started out writing what was most natural to me, many years ago, which is religious,… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
My first seven novels were contemporary spiritual novels, my next nine had strong elements of fantasy, and now I'm writing thrillers, more… — 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
“We call our religion the Great Romance, but really it feels more like a list of rules than anything similar to the… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
Once born into childlike faith, brimming with belief, typical people begin to lose their faith. Society mocks them. Their friends smirk. They… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view.… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
There is indeed good and there is indeed evil, and both walk the earth. But good has little to do with the… — 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
“A Christian in many American circles, for example, means 'right-wing, gun-toting fanatic who hates Democrats.' As such, a pacifist Democrat who called… — 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
