« All All Quotes · Ted Dekker's Page
All Quotes by Ted Dekker
- 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.…
- 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…
- Sin thrives in the dungeon, but slap it on the table for all to see, and it withers rather quickly.
- 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…
- My stories are not Christianized at all. I don't even have any Christians in my stories. What they are, are stories about ordinary people going…
- 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…
- So where does Stan fit in this equation?... We are told to meditate on scripture, even the hald that details the consequences of evil, the…
- You’re pretty sharp, Clive. Do you believe in God?†Clive smiled. “I don’t know, should I?†Actually, approaching the matter from a purely logical perspective,…
- The four rules of writing... 1. Write to discover. 2. There is no greater discovery than love. 3. All love comes from the Creator. 4.…
- I sell ideas. Actually, if you think about it, everything is really no more than idea. The past is nothing more than a memory, which…
- Pain or perspective, that's the choice.' . . . You choose pain - you choose to fight it, deny it, bury it - then yes,…
- 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…
- 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…
- Unfortunately, the world has taken some of the greatest minds God has given us and locked them up in cages. Most very brilliant or creative…
- When you step away from it all, you lose perspective.
- This will wreck you! Today, treat everyone you meet as if they're going to be dead by midnight. extend all the kindness and understanding you…
- The sun began to set behind Bethlehem and the beams were breaking through some white and gray clouds. There was a slight and beautiful chill…
- While the older generation is content to sit around and critique culture, that culture is moving beyond them. At some point the traditional church and…
More All Quotes
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide