Quotes from Ted Dekker

What matters isn't our stated belief and doctrine but how we live and what we experience in the story of our lives, as Jesus, John, James, and Paul all make so abundantly clear. It's our actual experience and expression of life that shows us and the world what we truly believe and to what extent we truly love, not what we say we believe or who we say we love. If we say we have faith, but the workings of our life don't reflect that faith, that faith is either asleep or dead.

In the same way, we who are clothed in Christ have great power and none greater than to love—without which, to quote Paul, the rest is nothing. But only in surrendering the old business suit do we see who we really are.

If a hundred million Americans woke up one morning and learned they had been infected with a virus that would kill them in a matter of weeks, and only one man had the cure and was demanding their cooperation in exchange for that cure . . . This was true power. All they needed was the right weapon. The one virus with its one cure.

Maybe they only come out at night," I said, staring into the flames. "Why would evil wait for night? Is it that limited?

Women stood along the

I would never hurt you," she said. "I can keep you safe, but to do so, I need your permission. Let me protect you.

I turned and saw her—the beautiful woman who was either a Fury of a totally different kind than any I'd imagined, or an angel.

Think of me as your guiding light. But you must also know that what you call the Fury are not all the same.

Terrifying creatures without heads or feet. Death hiding in black shrouds. But the death called Fury had teeth and claws, and they'd tortured and toyed with his mind and body for hours. Manipulated and exposed his deepest fears and doubts, broken his mind and his body. Trust us and we will leave you alone. Surrender to us and we'll keep you safe from harm. We are friends. We are you.

The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eye is clear, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness.

Humans, both personally and collectively, slaved away to possess various treasures and then spent their lives protecting them in the belief that what they had worked so hard to possess would make them whole.

So many Christians today see a system in which they cannot measure up and so they feel unworthy. The church seems to have failed them.

There are no longer any problems to solve. If there are no longer any problems to solve, there's no longer any need for correction. If there's no need for correction, then there's no need for law. Live in the grace of that which is now perfect, as it is. Be perfect, don't try to become perfect. You already are, you just don't know it yet. Be still and know.

But he'd resisted them, and the more he did, the harsher their attacks became. During the worst of it, he'd begged for death. Death is too small a price for your sins, they'd whispered. They wanted him alive for the final showdown. For the day Haven Valley was destroyed from within. Jamie didn't understand what it meant, but their haunting words filled him with a deeper fear than he'd ever known.

What is known that cannot be named?

Is the death of the will any less painful than the death of the body? Call it figurative if it makes you comfortable, but in reality the death of the will is far more traumatic than the death of the body.

Yes. Yes, you are right. In the death of the body the nerve endings soon stop feeling. In the death of the will the heart doesn't stop its bleeding so quickly.

El dolor fue tan profundo y tan crudo. Hubo días en que habría muerto solo para olvidar. El problema era que no sabía cómo sacarla de mi mente. ¿Cómo matas ese tipo de dolor?

Receive my strength," Sylous said. "Let me protect you." Jamie's back arched under the increasing energy. "Say it!" Sylous said. "Receive me!" "I receive you!" Jamie rasped.

The world around him began to dim. Sylous's final words sounded far away as Jamie's consciousness faded. "I need you. I need all of you.

Fear is the devil, always, and throws on into darkness. To accept is the best way ~Saba

I determined my significance by their perspective of me.

There's a story about a boat caught in a terrible storm. All the passengers were terrified except one, who slept in peace even as the waves pounded the boat, threatening the lives of all on board. They called that one Yeshua. The others rushed to him and begged him to save them. He stood and asked them one question. 'Why are you afraid, you of little faith?

Why would this teacher not be afraid in the face of such a terrible threat? Unless what he saw and what the others saw were two different realities. Where they saw a threat, he slept in peace. This was perhaps his greatest miracle, much greater than the healing of a rash.