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I never write my stories as a wake-up call as such. I simply explore the kinds of situations that I find personally challenging by placing characters into situations that challenge them in similar ways.

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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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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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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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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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And to understand how love unfolds, you must understand how Elyon loves.
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And does man simply choose evil, or does he create it?
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My writing is a very authentic journey of discovery. I'm going out there to learn who I am. My readers, consequently, take the same journey as my protagonist.
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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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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 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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Then as now, evil begins its courtship cloaked in light. And the heart embraces what is should flee. Forgetting it once had a true lover. Love will prove greater than lust. Sacrifice will overcome seduction. And blood will flow.
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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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In living we die, in dying we live.
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Dust to dust, ashes to ashes. Halleluiah amen, you are dismissed.
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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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