02UndatedThe fact is not kill entire populations is able to infect entire regions of land and control the only cure.Ted Dekker / quote ↗
03UndatedKeep your words. This pain is no life." "You only feel pain because you're alive, boy!" the keeper thundered. "This is the mystery of it. Life is lived on the ragged edge of the cliff. Fall off and you might die, but run from it and you are already dead!Ted Dekker / quote ↗
04UndatedEverything I've written up to this point is crap. Now I'm going to write the real oneTed Dekker / quote ↗
05UndatedDo not allow fear to bind you up, dear one. You will only lose what you already have. Accept what is given now. ~YeshuaTed Dekker / quote ↗
06UndatedPeople tend to react to other people in wholesale rather than in detail, right? He's a minister, so I hate him. She's beautiful, so I like her. One month later you wake up and realize you have nothing in common with the woman.Ted Dekker / quote ↗
07UndatedHe read reports, examined evidence, and poured more reports up the chain than the Pentagon could read. Nothing short of a human sieve. But in the end he was just one small piece on this game board called war. End of storyTed Dekker / quote ↗
08UndatedThe 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.Ted Dekker / quote ↗
10UndatedThe battle over flesh and blood cannot compare to the battle for the heart.Ted Dekker / quote ↗
11UndatedIf you were to put all of the world’s pain in one fifty-five gallon drum, it would look silly next to the mountains of gold and silver found in each moment with God. Our problem is that we rarely see past the drum – The Dance of the DeadTed Dekker / quote ↗
12UndatedImmanuel, God with us-that He would leave the spiritual realm and be present in the flesh and blood in such an act of humility is a staggering notion. As it is, He willingly gave His blood, in the flesh, so that others might find life, for it is written: "He did not come by water only, but by blood," and "Without the shedding of blood there is no remission." Now blood is required to give new life to the dead. I tell you, He did not give only a small amount to satisfy this requirement. He was beaten and crushed and pierced until that blood flowed like a river for the sake of love. It was for love, not religion, that He died. There is a fountain filled with blood drawn from Immanuel's veins. And those plunged beneath that watery grave to drink of His blood will never be the same.Ted Dekker / quote ↗
13UndatedWhat a terrible thing it is for children to see death, you say. We have it all wrong. If you make a child terrified of death, he won't embrace it so easily. And death must be embraced if you wish to follow Christ. Listen to His teaching. 'Unless you become like a child...and unless you take up your cross daily, you cannot enter the kingdom of heaven.' One is not valuable without the other. Janjic Jovic, The Dance of the Dead, 1959Ted Dekker / quote ↗
14UndatedValerik spit to one side. "We laugh at religion's brand of love, forms and rules that keep the poor feeding from the church's coffers. It is in deed." "I agree. That kind of love is porcelain-coated balls of dung.But what of true affection?...Ted Dekker / quote ↗
17UndatedIf someone tries to follow the narrow way and does not set aside who they think they are and what they think they need, they cannot follow.Ted Dekker / quote ↗
19UndatedWe all get to discover who we really are at some point, and when we do, it can be quite unsettling.Ted Dekker / quote ↗
21Undatedno one wanted to look at the common evils of society. Very few were willing to put aside their own pursuit of happiness long enough to consider the effects of greed and jealousy around them. From what she'd seen, humans were essentially troubled. For every one behind bars, another ten deserved to be behind bars, but that would put one in ten Americans behind bars.Ted Dekker / quote ↗
22UndatedI believe in God because only an idiot can look at the complex balance of nature and believe that has not been designed. Believe it or not, but some people still believe that a watch can make itself out of sand if you just give it enough time. That’s what they call evolution. And you wonder why I am cynical. From my point of view you have to be a fool not to be cynical.Ted Dekker / quote ↗
23UndatedIt is. And yet so few really are free. Nearly all people live in prisons of their own making, regardless of their faith, creed, sex or race.Ted Dekker / quote ↗
24UndatedPape called Basil his sanctuary. In truth we all exist in our own sanctuaries-but I don't mean cathedrals or prisons. I'm talking about our hearts and minds, which imprison us in anxiety, dear, insecurity, anger and other forms of misery. The walls & bars that keep most in a constant state of suffering are thoughts and emotions, not concrete & steel. It's a disease. Insanity. Most are afflicted by it, regardless of which side of the law they find themselves on or where they lay their heads at night. To be free of this, Renee, is to be free indeed.Ted Dekker / quote ↗
