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The world’s bumper sticker reads: Life sucks, and then you die. Perhaps Christian bumper stickers should read: Life sucks, but then you find hope and you can’t wait to die.
Ted Dekker
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Ted Dekker
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 24
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Theodore R. Dekker
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You'll have to learn to control your emotions. They're new, like achild's now, bursting with passion. Never let them fade, or part of you will die. But they cal also destroy you. Hold them dear, but don't let them take hold of you.
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Live to discover, as long as discovery leads to a love that comes from the Creator... writing was the mirror to life.
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And to understand how love unfolds, you must understand how Elyon loves.
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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
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Most believers struggle to really believe in the supernatural as a meaningful, deterministic reality except during moments when they are drawn to it, perhaps during a worship service or while reading a novel like 'Adam.' Being drawn to this truth is the first step to living a life in accordance to this truth.
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There is indeed good and there is indeed evil, and both walk the earth. But good has little to do with the forms of religion, and evil has as little to do with so much behavior condemned by religion. Both good and evil vie for the passions of the heart. For love!
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I always managed to get in trouble, like every kid. But I had to learn a lot of hard lessons on my own, without parents who would nurture me and guard me through that part of life, at a very young age.
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What was once obvious to them was no longer quite as obvious. Why was it that humans lost sight of truth so quickly?
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But what was possible or practical had been replaced by a far baser impulse. Hope.
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There is a fountain filled with blood drawn from Immanuel's Veins. And those plunged beneath that watery grave to drink of His blood will never be the same.
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All my books are very spiritual. I started out writing what was most natural to me, many years ago, which is religious, because I grew up in the jungle, the son of missionaries. I want to know, is God real? What's a priest's role?
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A person who finds silence and solitude boring is a person who is himself boring, empty of anything worth consideration.
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I've already said you can't take anything from me that I wouldn't freely give you.
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Knowing you’re worthless doesn’t give you value any more than knowing you are a captive sets you free.
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It was there, beyond the skin of this world, that a cure of ugliness could be found.
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My research for 'Adam' affected me profoundly, particularly the research into evil's underbelly. We tend not to think about evil until it pokes its head out of the air about us and then it tends to scare us silly. As well it should.
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. . . your history is no less important to your survival than your ability to breathe. In the end, you can only determine whether to saturate your memories with pain or with perspective. Forgetting is not an option. I tell you the truth now: Pain was not God's plan for this life. It is a reality, but it is not a part of the plan.
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Living is about clucking your tongue and enjoying the sound. ~Slater
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My first seven novels were contemporary spiritual novels, my next nine had strong elements of fantasy, and now I'm writing thrillers, more as a choice to spread my wings than anything. Writers, like good wine, should mature with age.
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The light came into the darkness, and the darkness did not understand it, but that no longer mattered because the light was now obliteration the darkness.
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