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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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Ted Dekker
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 24
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Republic of Indonesia
Theodore R. Dekker
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And does man simply choose evil, or does he create it?
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I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view. It's informed by our own understanding of spirituality things that matter, things that are important to us. I write about things that matter for me.
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He was as needy as she was. Alvin Finch only wanted to be needed. Loved. And absent of either, he resorted to deflecting his pain by killing. Just like a teenager might resort to deflecting the pain of rejection by cutting. People did a lot of crazy things to be wanted.
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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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She was having some difficulty piecing together exactly why she deserved to be in this place, but she wasn't stupid enough to deny that in the end life was cruel and didn't pay attention to what was fair.
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And to understand how love unfolds, you must understand how Elyon loves.
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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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Turn to the light. Don't fear the shadow it creates.
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Come hither, my dear. Come hither, that I mightest protectest thou!
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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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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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I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view.
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In living we die, in dying we live.
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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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Grow up? Get herself straightened out? Her mind reeled from the verbal battering. No matter what she did, her father would tell her she was wrong. Worthless. Undeserving.
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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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It's the sorrow you feel that allows you to crave love. Without the suffering, there would be no true pleasure. Without tears, no joy. Without deficiency, no longing. This is the secret of the human heart, Rom.
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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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It was there, beyond the skin of this world, that a cure of ugliness could be found.
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I think a woman is born with the desire to hear she is beautiful.
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