The Priest's Graveyard Quotes

“The problem with any philosophical consideration is that once you open a door in your mind, you can never close it. Once you learn something, you can never convince your mind that you didn't learn it. If you learn the world is round, you can never fit in with a world that thinks it's flat.”
― Ted Dekker, The Priest's Graveyard

“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.”
― Ted Dekker, The Priest's Graveyard

“Perfect, that's our plan then. But you'll have to give up being a priest first. I wouldn't want to just sit around whispering and sipping hot chocolate.”
― Ted Dekker, The Priest's Graveyard

“he loved me for who I was, not for who I could be”
― Ted Dekker, The Priest's Graveyard

“I was in awe of him. He was a beautiful man with a strong jaw and soft eyes. He was very kind and smiled a lot and, even more endearingly, he actually laughed at my antics. I could tell that he liked me, and I think he could tell that I liked him.
We were so different from each other, he being a priest and I a recovered junkie. He being a man who stood nearly six feet and solid as a steel beam, me being a a woman just over five feet, weighing in at about half his size. He growing up in Bosnia in a loving family that had been killed, me growing up in Atlanta with two parents who didn’t love me enough to stick around. He being a meat eater, me being a vegetarian.
But in other important ways we were similar, I thought. We both valued cleanliness. We both loved people. We both hated injustice. We both listened to jazz and classical music as well as pop and rock.”
― Ted Dekker, The Priest's Graveyard