Ted DekkerShe was having some difficulty piecing together exactly why she deserved to be in this place, but she wasn't stupid enough to deny that in the end life was cruel and didn't pay at… ▶372Life
Ted DekkerSome would say the Creator is a lamb. Some would say he's a lion. Some would say both. The fact is, he is neither a lamb nor a lion. These are fiction. Metaphors. Yet the Creator … ▶361Truth
Ted DekkerKeep your words. This pain is no life. You only feel pain because you're alive, boy! the keeper thundered. This is the mystery of it. Life is lived on the ragged edge of the cliff… ▶372DeathLifeReading
Ted DekkerYou 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. ✨… ▶373HumanityReadingTruth
Ted DekkerA person who finds silence and solitude boring is a person who is himself boring, empty of anything worth consideration. ✨ Ted Dekker (2012). The Paradise Trilogy, p.514, Th… ▶374Reflection
Ted DekkerThere's always risk in life's most rewarding pursuits, isn't there? ✨ Ted Dekker (2007). Blink of an Eye, p.238, Thomas Nelson Inc364Life
Ted DekkerYou'll have to learn to control your emotions. They're new, like achild's now, bursting with passion. Never let them fade, or part of you will die. But they cal also destroy you. … ▶332DeathLove
Ted DekkerBut sometimes imperfect tools lead us toward perfect ends.344Time
Ted DekkerThere’s a reason we are drawn to the light. A reason why we fear darkness. It’s important to be terrified and unnerved about certain things. That way we will choose another path. … ▶333LoveReadingTruth
Ted DekkerTurn to the light. Don't fear the shadow it creates. ✨ Ted Dekker (2005). The Slumber of Christianity: Awakening a Passion for Heaven on Earth, p.69, Thomas Nelson Inc323Love
Ted DekkerWho’s to say that it takes something like a drug to mess with your perception of reality? How did Hitler deceive a nation? How can one group of people look at the world and see on… ▶312HumanityTruth
Ted DekkerYou should know something, Miriam.... God changed our futures yesterday. There's no other explanation for what happened. And it wasn't the first God. If you ever need hlep, you mi… ▶334HopeTime
Ted DekkerI've already said you can't take anything from me that I wouldn't freely give you.378Reading
Ted DekkerHe read reports, examined evidence, and poured more reports up the chain than the Pentagon could read. Nothing short of a human sieve. But in the end he was just one small piece o… ▶313HumanityReading
Ted DekkerLiving is about clucking your tongue and enjoying the sound. ~Slater ✨ Ted Dekker (2008). Dekker 2 in 1 (Obsessed & Three), p.81, Thomas Nelson Inc291Life
Ted DekkerOur lives hang in the balance of unpredictable situations. One minute you're driving down the road whistling a tune, the next moment the car right in front of you spins out of con… ▶357DeathTime
Ted DekkerThere’s different ways to be impacted by truth. One is to read the scriptures. Another is to read other works by other people who have read the scriptures, non fiction for example… ▶346DeathHumanityReading
Ted Dekker…It’s not that you don’t have the capacity to accept the truth. You don’t want to accept it, and you hide behind your own logic and intelligence while the truth marches by. Step o… ▶292ReadingTruth
Ted DekkerThe problem with any philosophical consideration is that once you open a door in your mind, you can never close it. Once you learn something, you can never convince your mind that… ▶281ReflectionThought
Ted DekkerThen as now, evil begins its courtship cloaked in light. And the heart embraces what is should flee. Forgetting it once had a true lover. Love will prove greater than lust. Sacrif… ▶315LoveTruth
Ted DekkerSin thrives in the dungeon, but slap it on the table for all to see, and it withers rather quickly. ✨ Ted Dekker (2008). Dekker 2 in 1 (Obsessed & Three), p.305, Thomas Nels… ▶282Death
Ted DekkerThat’s it?” Jason asked. “You spent an hour talking about how lucky you were to be dying?” No, not dying, Son. Living. ✨ Ted Dekker, Bill Bright (2014). The Caleb Collection… ▶359DeathHopeLife
Ted DekkerI think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view. It's informed by our own understanding of spirituality; things th… ▶304Thought
Ted DekkerDive deep. Drown willingly283Life
Ted DekkerWhen you step away from it all, you lose perspective. ✨ Ted Dekker (2009). Bone Man's Daughters, p.88, Hachette UK3510Death
Ted DekkerUnfortunately, the world has taken some of the greatest minds God has given us and locked them up in cages. Most very brilliant or creative people seem strange to ordinary people.… ▶327HumanityLifeThought
Ted DekkerWage war on death. Live for love.3510DeathLove
Ted DekkerTo love in any way is to be like a child—it means to be vulnerable, to be wide-eyed, to be selfless. There is no such thing as free love; love is the most costly expression in the… ▶261Love
Ted DekkerWhere is God? Where can I find him? we ask. We don't realize that's like a fish swimming frantically through the ocean in search OF the ocean ✨ FaceBook post byTed Dekker fr… ▶3410Reading
Ted DekkerThe fact is not kill entire populations is able to infect entire regions of land and control the only cure.317Truth