Ted Dekker Quotes

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• 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 18.…
• The fact is not kill entire populations is able to infect entire regions of land and control the only cure.
• 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…
• 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…
• A person who finds silence and solitude boring is a person who is himself boring, empty of anything worth consideration.
• Sin thrives in the dungeon, but slap it on the table for all to see, and it withers rather quickly.
• I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view. It's informed by…
• He was as needy as she was. Alvin Finch only wanted to be needed. Loved. And absent of either, he resorted to deflecting his pain…
• I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view.
• 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…
• Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.
• 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…
• For me, writing is an experience. It's an exercise in which I want to discover myself by taking my characters to the edges of human…
• I always managed to get in trouble, like every kid. But I had to learn a lot of hard lessons on my own, without parents…
• 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…
• 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…
• If readers, young and old, would take even a moment to reflect on our rapidly shifting culture and ideology, I would be happy. Many leaders…
• If you could find a way to peel back the skin of this world so to speak, would you really see this supernatural reality that…
• It is critical that writers who embrace the light of Christ's redemptive love characterize the darkness arrayed against us in a way that is consistent…
• 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 1,…

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