My journey is so similar to everyone elses journey, because we all are human. We all have been defeated by the powers of darkness, and we all find redemption in the light of Christ. Ted Dekker More Quotes by Ted Dekker More Quotes From Ted Dekker Living is about clucking your tongue and enjoying the sound. ~Slater Ted Dekker tongue enjoy sound He was as needy as she was. Alvin Finch only wanted to be needed. Loved. And absent of either, he resorted to deflecting his pain by killing. Just like a teenager might resort to deflecting the pain of rejection by cutting. People did a lot of crazy things to be wanted. Ted Dekker teenager pain crazy I 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 that matter, things that are important to us. I write about things that matter for me. Ted Dekker views writing thinking Sin thrives in the dungeon, but slap it on the table for all to see, and it withers rather quickly. Ted Dekker dungeons sin tables The world didn’t like to look at the dark underside very often. But that didn’t change the ugliness; it only ensured that those who perpetuated the ugliness were left alone to kill and maim and rape. Ted Dekker dark looks world The 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 you didn't learn it. If you learn the world is round, you can never fit in with a world that thinks it's flat. Ted Dekker philosophical doors thinking Wage war on death. Live for love. Ted Dekker war …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 out and join it, for goodness’’ sake! Shout it out in full step! I believe! Ted Dekker sake want believe That’s it?” Jason asked. “You spent an hour talking about how lucky you were to be dying?” No, not dying, Son. Living. Ted Dekker dying talking son Knowing you’re worthless doesn’t give you value any more than knowing you are a captive sets you free. Ted Dekker captives knowing giving There is a fountain filled with blood drawn from Immanuel's Veins. And those plunged beneath that watery grave to drink of His blood will never be the same. Ted Dekker veins drink blood My idea for BoneMan's Daughters came from the loss of my own daughter when she left home to live with a monster at age 18. I wanted to throttle the man, but she was in love, so all I could do was hope, pray and cry. Ted Dekker daughter mother home What was once obvious to them was no longer quite as obvious. Why was it that humans lost sight of truth so quickly? Ted Dekker obvious sight lost 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. Ted Dekker lambs lions fiction And to understand how love unfolds, you must understand how Elyon loves. Ted Dekker The fact is not kill entire populations is able to infect entire regions of land and control the only cure. Ted Dekker population able land God is obviouslt God, and Heaven obviously exsists, and every word spoken here on earth turns heads up there. Ted Dekker real earth heaven So where does Stan fit in this equation?... We are told to meditate on scripture, even the hald that details the consequences of evil, the consequent of Jericho and all. Not to pretend out God has somehow changed since the time of Christ. Obviously, Paul's idea of admirable and noble is quite different from ours. God forgives us, Bill. We have mocked His victory by whitewashing the enemy for the sake of our neighbirs approval." No Greater Love has any man. Ted Dekker evil men ideas What matters is discovering myself under the veneer, under the layers that are wrapped around me. There are two 'yous'; there's 'you', the real you, and then there's the image. Ted Dekker what-matters real two My writing is a very authentic journey of discovery. I'm going out there to learn who I am. My readers, consequently, take the same journey as my protagonist. Ted Dekker journey writing discovery
