"no one wanted to look at the common……" — Ted Dekker
"no one wanted to look at the common evils of society. Very few were willing to put aside their own pursuit of happiness long enough to consider the effects of greed and jealousy around them. From what she'd seen, humans were essentially troubled. For every one behind bars, another ten deserved to be behind bars, but that would put one in ten Americans behind bars."
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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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A person who finds silence and solitude boring is a person who is himself boring, empty of anything worth consideration.
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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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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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