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But sometimes imperfect tools lead us toward perfect ends.

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Ted Dekker
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 24
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Republic of Indonesia
Theodore R. Dekker
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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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But what was possible or practical had been replaced by a far baser impulse. Hope.
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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.
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In living we die, in dying we live.
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God is obviouslt God, and Heaven obviously exsists, and every word spoken here on earth turns heads up there.
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I BELIEVE!!!!!!! - Johnny
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Turn to the light. Don't fear the shadow it creates.
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And to understand how love unfolds, you must understand how Elyon loves.
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The world didn’t like to look at the dark underside very often. But that didn’t change the ugliness it only ensured that those who perpetuated the ugliness were left alone to kill and maim and rape.
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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.
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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.
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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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Dust to dust, ashes to ashes. Halleluiah amen, you are dismissed.
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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.
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My stories are not Christianized at all. I don't even have any Christians in my stories. What they are, are stories about ordinary people going through extraordinary circumstances in which I'm exploring truth. How light overcomes darkness in a way that's unmistakable to anyone who has any kind of faith.
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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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Come hither, my dear. Come hither, that I mightest protectest thou!
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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.
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The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness cannot understand it
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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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