"Grow up? Get herself straightened out? Her mind……" — Ted Dekker
"Grow up? Get herself straightened out? Her mind reeled from the verbal battering. No matter what she did, her father would tell her she was wrong. Worthless. Undeserving."
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103 Quotes by Ted Dekker
Ted Dekker has 103 quotes on this site.
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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…
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The fact is not kill entire populations is able to infect entire regions of land and control the only cure.
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There is a fountain filled with blood drawn from Immanuel's Veins. And those plunged beneath that watery grave to drink…
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My journey is so similar to everyone elses journey, because we all are human. We all have been defeated by…
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A person who finds silence and solitude boring is a person who is himself boring, empty of anything worth consideration.
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Sin thrives in the dungeon, but slap it on the table for all to see, and it withers rather quickly.
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I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our…
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He was as needy as she was. Alvin Finch only wanted to be needed. Loved. And absent of either, he…
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I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our…
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When I sit down to write a novel, I am exploring my own relationship with God, with the struggle between…
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Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.
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All my books are very spiritual. I started out writing what was most natural to me, many years ago, which…
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Each of us keeps, battened down inside himself, a sort of lunatic giant; impossible socially, but full scale; and it's…
— Elizabeth Bowen
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Evil must be attacked by. . . the day to day assault of the battering rams of justice.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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No system in history capitalism has been more relentless in battering down ancient and fragile cultures, devouring the resources of…
— Michael Parenti
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A battering ram can knock down a city wall, but it cannot stop a hole. Different things have different uses.
— Zhuangzi
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Here we find the moat of thieves. And just as a lizard, with a quick, slick slither, Flicks across the…
— Dante Alighieri
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Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Men: Stand in solidarity with women. Women, if you were born female, you were born on a battlefield. You will…
— Lierre Keith
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I spent the whole time battering people I liked and singing with my arm round people I loathed.
— Billy Connolly
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When a man has been consistently battering his wife, he shouldn't expect a bouquet of roses from her the morning…
— Joe Slovo
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If only' repeated again and again in her head like a battering ram...'if only' could break your heart.
— Alexandra Ripley
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The sky was different, without color, taut and unforgiving. But the water was the most unforgiving thing, nearly black at…
— Jhumpa Lahiri
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The guarantee of safety in a battering relationship can never be based upon a promise from the perpetrator, no matter…
— Judith Lewis Herman
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