Quotes from Ted Dekker

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

Like all of my fictions, 'Sinner' is a mirror. Look into it and you will find yourself. What you do with what you see is your choice.

I've already said you can't take anything from me that I wouldn't freely give you.

I BELIEVE!!!!!!! - Johnny

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

Will you follow me, Darsal? Will you Silvie? Will you both follow me to hell and back because two fuzzy white bats told me you should?

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

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.

Unfortunately, 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. Geniuses are almost always outcasts. The intelligent are bullied on the playground. They see the world differently and are shunned for it. They nearly all turn out to be lonely at the least, locked up at the worst. It's human nature to encourage the status quo and shun those who see life differently.

Wage war on death. Live for love.

Like all of my fictions, Sinner is a mirror. Look into it and you will find yourself. What you do with what you see is your choice.

Some 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 is both a lamb and a lion. These are both truths.

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.

Come hither, my dear. Come hither, that I mightest protectest thou!

God is with me. Jesus is near. The Spirit is greater than my fear.

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

She suddenly began to jump up and down, screaming at the top of her lungs. The arks are after me! The arks are after me! Help me, the arks are after me! .... The arks! You don't understand, I have the ring and the arks are after me! .... (and so the police officer is puzzled long enough for Miriam and Seth to escape)

To 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 world. To love romantically is to give of oneself fully and completely, a merging and meshing of souls so that the twain become a unity. It is to allow the sense of wonder to fully enrapture.

Living is about clucking your tongue and enjoying the sound. ~Slater

This was the Great Romance. To love at any cost.

The point is, we were created to love beauty. We love beauty because Elyon loves beauty. We love song because Elyon loves song. We love love because Elyon loves love. And we love to be loved because Elyon loves to be loved. In all these ways we are like Elyon. In one way or another, everything we do is tied to this unfolding story of love between us and Elyon.

What is pure Bill? Or excellent or admirable? The death of a million people in a flood? God evidently through so. He is incapable of acts that are not admirable, and it is He who brought about the Flood. How about the slaying of children in Jericho? There are a few Bible stories that are not as terrible as they are happy. We just prefer to leave out the terrible part, but that only makes the good anemic.

Keep 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. Fall off and you might die, but run from it and you are already dead!

And does man simply choose evil, or does he create it?