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 More Quotes by Ted Dekker More Quotes From Ted Dekker In living we die, in dying we live. Ted Dekker dies dying You never read Spider-Man? Accepting your true identity means understanding that you are a stranger to this world. A freak, ostracized by the very people you want to help. Ted Dekker true-identity men mean I've already said you can't take anything from me that I wouldn't freely give you. Ted Dekker said giving Evil was predictable, always painfully expected. Ted Dekker predictable expected evil I think a woman is born with the desire to hear she is beautiful. Ted Dekker desire beautiful thinking The light had simply and utterly destroyed the darkness. Ted Dekker destroyed light darkness Anything unnatural was not naturally believed. Faith, in essence, was unnatural. Ted Dekker unnatural essence Who’s to say that it takes something like a drug to mess with your perception of reality? How did Hitler deceive a nation? How can one group of people look at the world and see one thing, and another see something completely different? One sees a town, another sees a desert. One sees beauty, another sees chaos.” The skin of this world,” he said quietly. Ted Dekker drug reality people It was there, beyond the skin of this world, that a cure of ugliness could be found. Ted Dekker skins found world 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 motivational inspirational life Once born into childlike faith, brimming with belief, typical people begin to lose their faith. Society mocks them. Their friends smirk. They come to change the world, but over time the world changes them. Soon they forget who they were; they forget the faith they once had. Then one day someone tells them the truth, but they don’t want to go back, because they’re comfortable in their new skin. Being a stranger in this world is never easy. Ted Dekker one-day skins people Then as now, evil begins its courtship cloaked in light. And the heart embraces what is should flee. Forgetting it once had a true lover. Love will prove greater than lust. Sacrifice will overcome seduction. And blood will flow. Ted Dekker sacrifice light heart When you step away from it all, you lose perspective. Ted Dekker loses perspective steps Born of Black and White, Eaten with worms, I'm a Saint, a Sinner, a Siren of the Word, The Circle knows me, the rest just wanna trip on Grace Juice, Baby Showdown at midnight Ted Dekker black-and-white circles baby It's the sorrow you feel that allows you to crave love. Without the suffering, there would be no true pleasure. Without tears, no joy. Without deficiency, no longing. This is the secret of the human heart, Rom. Ted Dekker secret heart joy 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! Ted Dekker pain running fall Dust to dust, ashes to ashes. Halleluiah amen, you are dismissed. Ted Dekker amen ashes dust 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. Ted Dekker darkness mind memories 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) Ted Dekker ark police long If you could find a way to peel back the skin of this world so to speak, would you really see this supernatural reality that is greater? Is it true that we fight not against flesh and blood but against principalities and powers? Every young person wants to know. Ted Dekker fighting blood reality
