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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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Ted Dekker
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 24
Author
Novelist
Republic of Indonesia
Theodore R. Dekker
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Free
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Worthless
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But what was possible or practical had been replaced by a far baser impulse. Hope.
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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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Thrillers provide the reader with a safe escape into a dangerous world where the stakes are as high as can be imagined with unpredictable outcomes. It's a perfect genre in which to explore hard issues of good and evil, a mirror that allows the reader to see both the good and not so good in themselves.
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If Slater were someone else, Kevin would merely be the poor victim of a horrible plot. Unless he was killed by Slater, in which case he would be the dead victim of a horrible plot
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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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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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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.
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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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The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness cannot understand it
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I would like my readers to close the cover at the end and say, 'Wow, I never thought of it like that before'.
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I BELIEVE!!!!!!! - Johnny
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In living we die, in dying we live.
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The problem with any philosophical consideration is that once you open a door in your mind, you can never close it. Once you learn something, you can never convince your mind that you didn't learn it. If you learn the world is round, you can never fit in with a world that thinks it's flat.
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Adrenaline dulls reason panic kills it.
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Living is about clucking your tongue and enjoying the sound. ~Slater
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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.
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Our lives hang in the balance of unpredictable situations. One minute you're driving down the road whistling a tune, the next moment the car right in front of you spins out of control and crashes. How you prepare for those unpredictable occurrences determines whether you live or die. Always leave an empty lane to your right or left for escape.
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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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Turn to the light. Don't fear the shadow it creates.
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