Quotes from Ted Dekker

For starters, you're the only one who can hear or see me. Like I said, you're my only concern. I won't reveal myself to anyone else.

Like the others, the children were clouded in a thin fog, though the cords of darkness weren't as developed.

Our bodies, our relationships, our lives. We're terrified of losing those things because we think they make us who we are. Fear of loss keeps it all in place. Dying means letting go of all of it, our entire life in the world, to know ourselves beyond the images and relationships apparent in this world.

Heme aquí divagando otra vez mientras estalla el mundo a mi alrededor.

It was a moment that could not be understood in the context of normal human experience. A great spiritual love had settled on them all.

Grace is calling the one who's trying to protect her 'Bobbie,'" he said. Ben thought about that. Eli rarely spoke about the particulars of the world at large, enslaved to darkness as it was. And Ben had long ago realized that it wasn't his place to ask for particulars. So much was beyond his understanding

BoneMan still had his back to him and was turning with a stunned stare. The head of the sledgehammer landed on the side of the man's head with a sickening crack.

And then Alvin Finch, aka BoneMan, aka Satan, toppled to his left. He bounced off the post in the middle of the room, struck the concrete next to the hammer's head with a loud slap, and lay still.

Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find.' If you know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give to those who ask him!" My mind filled with

The fog surrounding the boy retreated when Eli stopped not ten feet from him.

He was bitten with the bug. His curiosity was turning. His desire was outpacing his satisfaction. He'd gone to the Crossing because he was tired of not knowing. Well, now he knew, all right. The only question was, How much knowledge would suffice? And for how long?

Cords of darkness were wrapped around her arms, chest and neck. They didn't retreat as Stephen's had.

Eli reached out and took the girl's hand in his own. Almost immediately, the cords of fear retreated into her body.

Blood is life. Disease here and evil there are both carried by blood. And they're wiped out by blood.

Do you believe everything can change in the space of one breath?

Christians aren't generally known for their love any more than their neighbors are.

How could she, who'd drowned and found new life, question the reality of Elyon now, just because the world was dark?

Instructions were written by each inset, detailing the correct amount of force to use so the bone wouldn't break with enough force to cut through the skin. Along one wall sat a metal-framed bed. And on the bed lay several piles of four-by-four wooden blocks. A neatly folded stack of towels and several coils of string had been set at the head of the bed. Atop them lay a large sledgehammer and vise grips.

You humans are lovers, yes? So you have this awful tendency to reject Him who first loved you and follow after intoxicating sense. Evil is a jealous lover who will try to destroy what it cannot posses.

At first Welsh just stared, as did Ryan. But when the meaning of what this room might hold for him formed in Welsh's mind, he protested with a wide-eyed grunt.

I spun back and saw Eli standing in the midst of the chaos, undisturbed. I rushed for him, grabbed his arm, and fell to my knees before him. "Save us!" I cried. Surely he could, with the power I had seen him use. He looked down at me lovingly and smiled. "Remember, Grace, you are the light!" he cried above the cacophony. "Just like me.

my lack of faith was wearing thin

We watched him go, stunned and confused. At least I did. What he said made sense in my old way of being. Sylous was an angel, sent with the word of God to the elect. He had to be.

The expectation of fulfillment in relationships will always fail you