Ted Dekker Short Quotes

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Prayer may just be the most powerful tool mankind has.
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Living is about clucking your tongue and enjoying the sound.

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In the end you will be your own undoing. You can't escape you.

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There's always risk in life's most rewarding pursuits, isn't there?

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And to understand how love unfolds, you must understand how Elyon loves.

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The battle over flesh and blood cannot compare to the battle for the heart.

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Anything unnatural was not naturally believed. Faith, in essence, was unnatural.

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But what was possible or practical had been replaced by a far baser impulse. Hope.

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Knowing you're worthless doesn't give you value any more than knowing you are a captive sets you free.

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That's it? Jason asked. You spent an hour talking about how lucky you were to be dying? No, not dying, Son. Living.

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What was once obvious to them was no longer quite as obvious. Why was it that humans lost sight of truth so quickly?

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Whenever you write on a subject that questions the status quo, there are bound to be many who wrestle with the issues

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Live to discover, as long as discovery leads to a love that comes from the Creator... writing was the mirror to life.

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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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How can you hope to recognize good and evil for what they truly are if you have no belief in a moral authority greater than yourself?

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Perfect, that's our plan then. But you'll have to give up being a priest first. I wouldn't want to just sit around whispering and sipping hot chocolate.

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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. Write what you will.

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The light came into the darkness, and the darkness did not understand it, but that no longer mattered because the light was now obliteration the darkness.

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Most men and women will yield to the strong currents sucking them into the seas of ruin. Only the strongest in mind and spirit will swim against that current.

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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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You never read Spider-Man? Accepting your true identity means understanding that you are a stranger to this world. A freak, ostracized by the very people you want to help.

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The pain was so deep and so raw. There were days I would have died just to forget. The problem was, I couldn't figure out how to get her out of my mind. How do you kill that kind of pain?

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The world didn't like to look at the dark underside very often. But that didn't change the ugliness; it only ensured that those who perpetuated the ugliness were left alone to kill and maim and rape.

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