Quotes by Ted Dekker

Ted Dekker

. . . your history is no less important to your survival than your ability to breathe. In the end, you can only determine whether to saturate your memories with pain or with perspective. Forgetting is not an option. I tell you the truth now: Pain was not God’s plan for this life. It is a reality, but it is not a part of the plan.

Memories

Pain

Reality

…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.

Men

Strong

Yield

A person who finds silence and solitude boring is a person who is himself boring, empty of anything worth consideration.

Boring

Silence

Solitude

All my books are very spiritual. I started out writing what was most natural to me, many years ago, which is religious, because I grew up in the jungle, the son of missionaries. I want to know, is God real? What’s a priest’s role?

Real

Religious

Spiritual

And he wants you to keep that at the front of your mind? He wants you to stay focused on the darkest seasons of your life? How could that possibly do any good?’ . . . He wants you to remember who delivered you from that time. That’s the point of holding on to memory: delivery, not darkness.

Darkness

Memories

Mind

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

But sometimes imperfect tools lead us toward perfect ends.

Perfect

Sometimes

Tools

But what was possible or practical had been replaced by a far baser impulse.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

Impulse

Practicals

Replaced

Dive deep. Drown willingly

Dust to dust, ashes to ashes. Halleluiah amen, you are dismissed.

Amen

Ashes

Dust

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Amen

Angel

Ark

Ashes

Battle

Beautiful

Belief

Believe

Blood

Boards

Boring

Bursting

Captives

Children

Chocolate

Christian

Dark

Darkness

Daughter

Desire

Destroyed

Discovery

Drug

Dungeons

Dust

Emotion

Evil

Expected

Fall

Fiction

Fighting

Games

Giving

Giving Up

Heart

Home

Impulse

Inspirational

Journey

Joy

Kind

Knowing

Lambs

Land

Laughter

Leader

Light

Lions

Long

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Quotes by Ted Dekker

Ted Dekker

…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.

A person who finds silence and solitude boring is a person who is himself boring, empty of anything worth consideration.

All my books are very spiritual. I started out writing what was most natural to me, many years ago, which is religious, because I grew up in the jungle, the son of missionaries. I want to know, is God real? What’s a priest’s role?

And he wants you to keep that at the front of your mind? He wants you to stay focused on the darkest seasons of your life? How could that possibly do any good?’ . . . He wants you to remember who delivered you from that time. That’s the point of holding on to memory: delivery, not darkness.

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

But sometimes imperfect tools lead us toward perfect ends.

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

Dive deep. Drown willingly

Dust to dust, ashes to ashes. Halleluiah amen, you are dismissed.

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