Ted Dekker

Author

1962-10-24

Quotes by Ted Dekker

• Living is about clucking your tongue and enjoying the sound.~Slater

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• Valerik 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?...

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• What 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, 1959

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• Immanuel, 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.

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• If 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 Dead

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• The battle over flesh and blood cannot compare to the battle for the heart.

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• Every breathing soul longs to overcome.

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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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• He 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 story

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• People 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.

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• Do not allow fear to bind you up, dear one. You will only lose what you already have. Accept what is given now. ~Yeshua

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• Everything I've written up to this point is crap. Now I'm going to write the real one

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• Keep 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!

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• The fact is not kill entire populations is able to infect entire regions of land and control the only cure.

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• Dive deep. Drown willingly

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• The fact is not kill entire populations is able to infect entire regions of land and control the only cure.

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• Immanuel, 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.

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• Valerik 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?...

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• Do not allow fear to bind you up, dear one. You will only lose what you already have. Accept what is given now. ~Yeshua

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• If 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 Dead

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