This will wreck you! Today, treat everyone you meet as if they're going to be dead by midnight. extend all the kindness and understanding you can, and do it with no thought of any reward. Ted Dekker More Quotes by Ted Dekker More Quotes From Ted Dekker There's always risk in life's most rewarding pursuits, isn't there? Ted Dekker risks-in-life pursuit risk My stories are not Christianized at all. I don't even have any Christians in my stories. What they are, are stories about ordinary people going through extraordinary circumstances in which I'm exploring truth. How light overcomes darkness in a way that's unmistakable to anyone who has any kind of faith. Ted Dekker light christian people 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. Ted Dekker finding-yourself mirrors choices Dive deep. Drown willingly Ted Dekker Our lives hang in the balance of unpredictable situations. One minute you're driving down the road whistling a tune, the next moment the car right in front of you spins out of control and crashes. How you prepare for those unpredictable occurrences determines whether you live or die. Always leave an empty lane to your right or left for escape. Ted Dekker car balance tunes You’re pretty sharp, Clive. Do you believe in God?” Clive smiled. “I don’t know, should I?” Actually, approaching the matter from a purely logical perspective, yes. All the evidence points to the existence of a creator. The single greatest body of evidence is the dismal failure of man’s desperate attempts to come up with a reasonable alternative, beginning with evolution. I’ve always looked at the universe and seen a creator as plainly as most people who look at the ocean see water. Ted Dekker ocean men believe no one wanted to look at the common evils of society. Very few were willing to put aside their own pursuit of happiness long enough to consider the effects of greed and jealousy around them. From what she'd seen, humans were essentially troubled. For every one behind bars, another ten deserved to be behind bars, but that would put one in ten Americans behind bars. Ted Dekker pursuit-of-happiness evil long I sell ideas. Actually, if you think about it, everything is really no more than idea. The past is nothing more than a memory, which is one kind of idea. The future is still a hope, another kind of idea. The present is fleeting and becomes a memory before you can put your hands on it. All ideas. I sell ideas. Ted Dekker memories past thinking For me, writing is an experience. It's an exercise in which I want to discover myself by taking my characters to the edges of human experience, to the edges of themselves and then, asking certain questions - about love, what does it mean to love? What's beauty? What is true beauty? Ted Dekker writing character mean Thrillers provide the reader with a safe escape into a dangerous world where the stakes are as high as can be imagined with unpredictable outcomes. It's a perfect genre in which to explore hard issues of good and evil, a mirror that allows the reader to see both the good and not so good in themselves. Ted Dekker dangerous-world issues mirrors A person who finds silence and solitude boring is a person who is himself boring, empty of anything worth consideration. Ted Dekker boring solitude silence But sometimes imperfect tools lead us toward perfect ends. Ted Dekker tools perfect sometimes Live to discover, as long as discovery leads to a love that comes from the Creator... writing was the mirror to life. Ted Dekker mirrors writing discovery Suffering is an oxymoron. There is unfathomable peace and satisfaction in suffering for Christ. It is as though you have searched endlessly for your purpose in life and now found it in the most unexpected place: In the death of your flesh. It is certainly a moment worth of laughter and dance. And in the end it is not suffering at all. The apostle Paul recommended that we find joy in it. Was he mad? Ted Dekker mad laughter joy You should know something, Miriam.... God changed our futures yesterday. There's no other explanation for what happened. And it wasn't the first God. If you ever need hlep, you might want to try the second God. Ted Dekker yesterday trying needs Perfect, that's our plan then. But you'll have to give up being a priest first. I wouldn't want to just sit around whispering and sipping hot chocolate. Ted Dekker giving-up chocolate perfect There’s different ways to be impacted by truth. One is to read the scriptures. Another is to read other works by other people who have read the scriptures, non fiction for example. Another is to do studies. Another is to go to a place of worship. Another thing is to sit and listen to someone who’s speaking. There’s all kinds of ways. Another way is to write. About the truth. Discover the struggle through your character. Ted Dekker struggle writing character But what was possible or practical had been replaced by a far baser impulse. Hope. Ted Dekker replaced impulse practicals Whenever you write on a subject that questions the status quo, there are bound to be many who wrestle with the issues Ted Dekker status-quo issues writing I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view. Ted Dekker our-world writing thinking
