Quotes from Ted Dekker

What a terrible thing it is for children to see death, you say. We have it all wrong. If you make a child terrified of death, he won't embrace it so easily. And death must be embraced if you wish to follow Christ. Listen to His teaching. 'Unless you become like a child...and unless you take up your cross daily, you cannot enter the kingdom of heaven.' One is not valuable without the other. Janjic Jovic, The Dance of the Dead, 1959

Because she, too, was the Dark One, wasn't she? They all were, as much as they were all Forest Dwellers, without Elyon's cleansing waters. Yet they were chosen. It was up to them to follow either the one who had made them dark, or the one who had chosen each of them. Teeleh or Elyon.

We're far more than just physical beings having a spiritual experience. We're spiritual beings having a temporary physical experience.

What man would not romance a woman who had invited him? And what woman would not romance a man who had chosen her? It was the nature of the Great Romance.

You give people a little money and they lose all their manners, even the ones who had manners to begin with.

His eyes held a subtle light that she could not mistake for anything other than true attraction. The kind that mere friends did not share. She hated it. She loved it. She hated that she loved it.

Among a rising tide of millions of Christians, how we label ourselves isn't nearly as important as how we actually experience and demonstrate Yeshua's incredible power in and as us, beginning with the power to love our enemies. To us, this is what it means to know God and the One He sent. Words only reflect an intellectual dogma, but the expression of our lives shows our true dogma, which matters far more.

doing good required taking risks.

Three of five seals. White: Origin is Infinite. Green: I am the Light of the World. Black: Seeing the Light in Darkness is my Journey.

If someone tries to follow the narrow way and does not set aside who they think they are and what they think they need, they cannot follow.

Everything was really a story, penned or thought or acted out at some time by someone.

You will only see who you are and thus be who you are as you surrender your attachment to all other identities