"It's the sorrow you feel that allows you……" — Ted Dekker
"It's the sorrow you feel that allows you to crave love. Without the suffering, there would be no true pleasure. Without tears, no joy. Without deficiency, no longing. This is the secret of the human heart, Rom."
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103 Quotes by Ted Dekker
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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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