Quotes from Ted Dekker
It's critical that we use a very dark brush to paint evil. When you bring the light into that darkness as characterized in John 1, that light is very vivid. When it dispels the darkness, we see the brilliance that's there.
- Ted Dekker
Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.
- Ted Dekker
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
It is critical that writers who embrace the light of Christ's redemptive love characterize the darkness arrayed against us in a way that is consistent with its true nature.
- Ted Dekker
God is with me. Jesus is near. The Spirit is greater than my fear.
- Ted Dekker
God is obviously God, and Heaven obviously exists, and every word spoken here on earth turns heads up there.
- Ted Dekker
When I sit down to write a novel, I am exploring my own relationship with God, with the struggle between good and evil, my own purpose.
- Ted Dekker
Prayer may just be the most powerful tool mankind has." ~Blink
- Ted Dekker
Do not allow fear to bind you up, dear one. You will only lose what you already have. Accept what is given now. ~Yeshua
- Ted Dekker
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
I studied philosophy, religious studies, and English. My training was writing four full-length novels and hiring an editor to tear them apart. I had enough money to do that, and then rewriting and rewriting and rewriting.
- Ted Dekker
Where is God? Where can I find him?" we ask. We don't realize that's like a fish swimming frantically through the ocean in search OF the ocean
- Ted Dekker