"Turn to the light. Don't fear the shadow it creates."
— Ted Dekker

"“Prayer may just be the most powerful tool mankind has.”
~Blink
"
— Ted Dekker

"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."
— Ted Dekker (The Slumber of Christianity: Awakening a Passion for Heaven on Earth)

"“…It’s not that you don’t have the capacity to accept the truth. You don’t want to accept it, and you hide behind your own logic and intelligence while the truth marches by. Step out and join it, for goodness’’ sake! Shout it out in full step! I believe!”"
— Ted Dekker (Saint)

"“Once born into childlike faith, brimming with belief, typical people begin to lose their faith. Society mocks them. Their friends smirk. They come to change the world, but over time the world changes them. Soon they forget who they were; they forget the faith they once had. Then one day someone tells them the truth, but they don’t want to go back, because they’re comfortable in their new skin. Being a stranger in this world is never easy.”"
— Ted Dekker (Saint)

"’True love is found by stepping off the cliff... Faith and love are bound together inseparably. If you don’t truly believe, you can’t truly love. If you don’t love, you cannot truly believe. Each is required for the other.’"
— Ted Dekker (A Man Called Blessed)

"’...You never read Spider-Man? Accepting your true identity means understanding that you are a stranger to this world. A freak, ostracized by the very people you want to help.’"
— Ted Dekker (Saint)

"The four rules of writing... 1. Write to discover. 2. There is no greater discovery than love. 3. All love comes from the Creator. 4. Write what you will."
— Ted Dekker (Showdown)

""Dive deep. Drown willingly""
— Ted Dekker (White)

" Born
of Black
and White, Eaten
with worms,
I'm a Saint, a Sinner,
a Siren of the
Word, The Circle
knows me, the rest
just wanna trip on
Grace Juice, Baby
Showdown
at midnight"
— Ted Dekker (Showdown)

"’Faith is believing in what you can’t see. Like air. And faith is the kind of belief that makes you do things like jump – otherwise it’s not faith at all... Most people who think they believe don’t really believe at all – not the way Christ and his brother talked about. They only think they believe, but they never really step off the cliff.’"
— Ted Dekker (A Man Called Blessed)

"’...Death is the one thing that happens to every person. So what if our passing is a little strenuous? What awaits will be no less delightful.’"
— Ted Dekker (Obsessed)

"’You only owe it to God to run when he asks you to run.’"
— Ted Dekker (A Man Called Blessed)

"God is obviouslt God, and Heaven obviously exsists, and every word spoken here on earth turns heads up there."
— Ted Dekker

"The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness cannot understand it"
— Ted Dekker (House)

"“You’re pretty sharp, Clive. Do you believe in God?”
Clive smiled. “I don’t know, should I?”
“Actually, approaching the matter from a purely logical perspective, yes. All the evidence points to the existence of a creator. The single greatest body of evidence is the dismal failure of man’s desperate attempts to come up with a reasonable alternative, beginning with evolution. I’ve always looked at the universe and seen a creator as plainly as most people who look at the ocean see water.”
-Blink
"
— Ted Dekker

"“Who’s to say that it takes something like a drug to mess with your perception of reality? How did Hitler deceive a nation? How can one group of people look at the world and see one thing, and another see something completely different? One sees a town, another sees a desert. One sees beauty, another sees chaos.”
“The skin of this world,” he said quietly.
-Skin"
— Ted Dekker

"’This world we now live in may indeed be a beautiful gift from God, but do not forget that we wait with breathless anticipation for our union with him beyond this life.’"
— Ted Dekker (The Martyr's Song: Unabridged Audio)

"Whenever you write on a subject that questions the status quo, there are bound to be many who wrestle with the issues"
— Ted Dekker (The Slumber of Christianity: Awakening a Passion for Heaven on Earth)

"Live to discover, as long as discovery leads to a love that comes from the Creator... writing was the mirror to life."
— Ted Dekker (Showdown)

"’Write an extraordinary story that will leave your reader gasping.’"
— Ted Dekker (Showdown)

"Anything unnatural was not naturally believed. Faith, in essence, was unnatural."
— Ted Dekker (Saint)

"The light had simply and utterly destroyed the darkness."
— Ted Dekker (Renegade: The Lost Books, Book 3)

""What is pure Bill? Or excellent or admirable? The death of a million people in a flood? God evidently through so. He is incapable of acts that are not admirable, and it is He who brought about the Flood. How about the slaying of children in Jericho? There are a few Bible stories that are not as terrible as they are happy. We just prefer to leave out the terrible part, but that only makes the good anemic. "
— Ted Dekker (When Heaven Weeps: A Novel)

"We Christian writers must paint evil with the blackest of brushes, not to sow fear, but to call out the monsters to be scattered by our light. If Satan cloaks himself as an angel of white, intent on deceiving the world, any attempt on our parts to minimize evil is only complicit with his strategy... Turn to the light; don’t fear the shadows it creates."
— Ted Dekker (The Slumber of Christianity: Awakening a Passion for Heaven on Earth)

"“It was there, beyond the skin of this world, that a cure of ugliness could be found.”"
— Ted Dekker (Skin)

"That’s it?” Jason asked. “You spent an hour talking about how lucky you were to be dying?”
“No, not dying, Son. Living.”"
— Ted Dekker (Blessed Child)

""I BELIEVE!!!!!!!"
- Johnny"
— Ted Dekker (Showdown)

"’Now and then we’re all confronted with a new slice of truth, an opportunity that could change everything. The realization that the brick wall in front of us isn’t solid at all, if we only have the guts to run pell-mell into it.’"
— Ted Dekker (Renegade: The Lost Books, Book 3)

"She suddenly began to jump up and down, screaming at the top of her lungs. "The arks are after me! The arks are after me! Help me, the arks are after me!"
....
"The arks! You don't understand, I have the ring and the arks are after me!"
....
(and so the police officer is puzzled long enough for Miriam and Seth to escape)"
— Ted Dekker (Blink)

"’What’s the matter...? You’re enslaved by the same pathetic weakness that holds the agnostic in chains? Hmm? It is not that you don’t have the capacity to accept the truth. You don’t want to accept it, and you hide behind your own logic and intelligence while the truth marches by. Step out and join it, for goodness’ sake! Shout it out in full step! I believe!’"
— Ted Dekker (Saint)

"Come hither, my dear. Come hither, that I mightest protectest thou!"
— Ted Dekker (Black)

". . . your history is no less important to your survival than your ability to breathe. In the end, you can only determine whether to saturate your memories with pain or with perspective. Forgetting is not an option. I tell you the truth now: Pain was not God's plan for this life. It is a reality, but it is not a part of the plan.""
— Ted Dekker

"’In the great match for the hearts of men, it isn’t who lives or dies that matters... It’s who wins the match. Who loves God. We each have our part to play.’"
— Ted Dekker (Thunder of Heaven: A Novel)

"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."
— Ted Dekker (BoneMan's Daughters)

"’Superhero? Aren’t we all? Isn’t that what all men, women, and children of faith are? Isn’t that what Project Showdown was all about? We, the ostracized few, given power to aid the very society that fears us?'"
— Ted Dekker (Saint)

"Evil was predictable, always painfully expected."
— Ted Dekker (BoneMan's Daughters)

"So where does Stan fit in this equation?...
"We are told to meditate on scripture, even the hald that details the consequences of evil, the consequent of Jericho and all. Not to pretend out God has somehow changed since the time of Christ. Obviously, Paul's idea of admirable and noble is quite different from ours. God forgives us, Bill. We have mocked His victory by whitewashing the enemy for the sake of our neighbirs approval."
'No Greater Love has any man...""
— Ted Dekker (When Heaven Weeps: A Novel)

"Like all of my fictions, Sinner is a mirror. Look into it and you will find yourself. What you do with what you see is your choice.
"
— Ted Dekker

"I sell ideas. Actually, if you think about it, everything is really no more than idea. The past is nothing more than a memory, which is one kind of idea. The future is still a hope, another kind of idea. The present is fleeting and becomes a memory before you can put your hands on it. All ideas. I sell ideas."
— Ted Dekker (Obsessed)

"’What waits beyond is the prize, Nadia. This... this fleeting world may look like the Garden of Eden to us, but it’s nothing more than a taste.’"
— Ted Dekker (The Martyr's Song: Unabridged Audio)

""The pain was so deep and so raw. There were days I would have died just to forget. The problem was, I couldn't figure out how to get her out of my mind. How do you kill that kind of pain?""
— Ted Dekker (Kiss)

"no 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 (BoneMan's Daughters)

"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."
— Ted Dekker (Blink)

"I've already said you can't take anything from me that I wouldn't freely give you."
— Ted Dekker (Kiss)

"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."
— Ted Dekker (Kiss)

"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"
— Ted Dekker (BoneMan's Daughters)