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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: 61
Born: 1962
Born: October 24
Author
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Republic of Indonesia
Theodore R. Dekker
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Living is about clucking your tongue and enjoying the sound. ~Slater
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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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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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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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