"He was as needy as she was. Alvin……" — Ted Dekker
"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 by killing. Just like a teenager might resort to deflecting the pain of rejection by cutting. People did a lot of crazy things to be wanted."
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Ted Dekker
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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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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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For me, writing is an experience. It's an exercise in which I want to discover myself by taking my characters…
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Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in…
— Hannah Arendt
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The divine life is the spirit in everything that exists, from the atom to the archangel; the grain of dust…
— Annie Besant
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Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
— Ambrose Bierce
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The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent…
— Elizabeth Bowen
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Men can absent themselves from real life for their art more easily. Women are anchored into the quotidian business of…
— Geraldine Brooks
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The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will…
— John Calvin
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Let's face it.., our current [immigration control] system is like a busy intersection without a traffic cop: sure there are…
— Ronald Reagan
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All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of…
— Germaine Greer
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When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot become manifest, strength cannot be exerted, wealth is useless, and…
— Herophilos
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When the Spirit is absent, our excuses always seem right, but in the presence of the Spirit our excuses fade…
— R. T. Kendall
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Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with…
— Lucretius
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