Quotes from Ted Dekker

He knew that behind the skin of this world, there was another. And in that world the children were laughing.

Trust the Father. Then you will master this world with pleasure rather than be mastered by it. Then you will find the power to command any storm.

Whoever said that a straightened hand was more dramatic than a healed heart anyway? -the character Dr. Paul Thompson from Blessed Child

Consider another core teaching of Jesus. It was he who said that all those who followed him would be known by their radical ability to show kindness to those who were cruel to them2 and to love without holding record of wrong. In fact he said that this kind of love would be the primary evidence of those who know and follow him.3

The world had made an agreement with fear to keep it safe, but that safety was a lie wielded like a sword, turning the world into a sea of blood. Humanity had been murdering itself for a very long time. Only love could cast out that fear.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, because it's only a shadow.

The sight of her stunned me. Ropes of dense fog wrapped around her chest and neck, and the offshoots wove their way into her eyes, her ears, her mouth. She stood in a thin, shifting fog. And she was clearly unaware of any of it. Unaware that she'd bound herself to fear, which blinded her to the kingdom of heaven, in which she was the light.

invaded you and blinded you to the light.

The kingdom of heaven is the perception of light. If your perception is clear, you will see that your whole body is full of light. Only blindness keeps anyone from seeing it.

My mind filled with a knowing that set my bloodstream on fire and transported me to a different kind of awareness. With my eyes open to the kingdom of heaven, I saw.

If my path is with learning and tears and submission, can you not follow that same path?

Our bodies, our relationships, our lives. We're terrified of losing those things because we think they make us who we are. Fear of loss keeps it all in place. Dying means letting go of all of it, our entire life in the world, to know ourselves beyond the images and relationships apparent in this world.