Black Quotes

“Some would say the Creator is a lamb. Some would say he's a lion. Some would say both. The fact is, he is neither a lamb nor a lion. These are fiction. Metaphors. Yet the Creator is both a lamb and a lion. These are both truths.”
― Ted Dekker, Black: The Birth of Evil

“Come hither, my dear. Come hither, that I mightest protectest thou!”
― Ted Dekker, Black: The Birth of Evil

“The point is, we were created to love beauty. We love beauty because Elyon loves beauty. We love song because Elyon loves song. We love love because Elyon loves love. And we love to be loved because Elyon loves to be loved. In all these ways we are like Elyon. In one way or another, everything we do is tied to this unfolding story of love between us and Elyon.”
― Ted Dekker, Black: The Birth of Evil

“This was the Great Romance. To love at any cost.”
― Ted Dekker, Black: The Birth of Evil

“Adrenaline dulls reason; panic kills it.”
― Ted Dekker, Black: The Birth of Evil

“How can there be love without a true choice? Would you suggest that man be stripped of the capacity to love?”
― Ted Dekker, Black: The Birth of Evil

“Not evil. Not any more evil than the colored trees are good.Evil and good reside in the heart, not in trees and water.”
― Ted Dekker, Black: The Birth of Evil

“And to understand how love unfolds, you must understand how Elyon loves.”
― Ted Dekker, Black: The Birth of Evil

“Not wonderful that you've forgotten, mind you. Wonderful that you have so much to discover.”
― Ted Dekker, Black: The Birth of Evil

“These were his people--a strange thought. Maybe not his very own people, as in father, mother, brother, sister, but people just like him. He was lost but not so lost after all.”
― Ted Dekker, Black: The Birth of Evil

“What man would not romance a woman who had invited him? And what woman would not romance a man who had chosen her? It was the nature of the Great Romance.”
― Ted Dekker, Black

“The fact is not kill entire populations is able to infect entire regions of land and control the only cure.”
― Ted Dekker, Black: The Birth of Evil

“Then maybe you can tell me something else. How is it that Elyon can allow evil to exist in the black forest? Why doesn’t he just destroy the Shataiki?” “Because evil provides his creation with a choice,” the child said as though the concept was very simple indeed. “And because without it, there could be no love.”
― Ted Dekker, Black

“Tarih ıvır zıvırı sever.”
― Ted Dekker, Black: The Birth of Evil

“Because evil provides his creation with a choice,” the child said as though the concept was very simple indeed. “And because without it, there could be no love.” “Love?” Tom stopped. The boy’s hand slipped out of his. He turned, brow raised. “Love is dependent on evil?” Tom asked. “Did I say that?” A mischievous glint filled the boy’s eyes. “How can there be love without a true choice? Would you suggest that man be stripped of the capacity to love?”
― Ted Dekker, Black

“You are braver than most," the bat said, eying his colored sword.
"And I am not as dense as you think I am," Tanis said. "I know that even now you're trying your trickery."
"If I use this... trickery and persuade you by it, wouldn't that mean I am smarter than you?" Tanis considered the logic. "Perhaps."
"Then trickery is a form of knowledge. And knowledge is a form of truth. And you want more of it; otherwise, as I said, you wouldn't be here. So if by using trickery I persuade you to accept my knowledge, it can only be because I am smarter than you. I have more truth."
It was confounding, this logic of his.”
― Ted Dekker, Black

“He caught himself. These were the Shataiki. Vermin. They were meant to be beaten, not coddled. But, as the histories had so eloquently recorded, to defeat your enemy you must know him. He would speak to the big beautiful one only. And he would pretend to be a friend. In this way he would outwit the creature by learning his weaknesses, then return one day and be rid of him. And he would do it holding the colored wood.”
― Ted Dekker, Black

“The explanation didn’t seem quite so simple to Tom, but he let it suffice. “And what happened to ancient Earth?” he asked. “Oh dear, now you ask too much,” Michal said, turning. “That story is not so simple. We would have to start with the great virus at the beginning of the twenty-first century—” “The French,” Gabil cut in. “The Raison Strain.” “Not really the French,” Michal said. “A Frenchman, yes, but you can’t say it was . . . never mind. They thought it was a good thing, a vaccine, but it mutated under intense heat and became a virus. The whole business ravaged the entire population of Earth in a matter of three short weeks—” “Less than three,” Gabil inserted. “Less than three weeks.” “—and opened the door to the Deception.” “The Great Deception,” Gabil said. “Yes, the Great Deception.” Michal gave his friend a let-me-tell-the-story look. “From there we would have to move on to the time of the tribulations and wars. It would take a full day to tell you how other Earth—ancient Earth—saw the end. Clearly you don’t know all of the histories, do you?” “Obviously not.”
― Ted Dekker, Black

“He was bitten with the bug. His curiosity was turning. His desire was outpacing his satisfaction. He’d gone to the Crossing because he was tired of not knowing. Well, now he knew, all right. The only question was, How much knowledge would suffice? And for how long?”
― Ted Dekker, Black

“But the Great Romance is the root of our stories, stories that confront us with the eternal ideals. Love. Beauty. Hope. The greatest gifts. The very heart of Elyon. Do you understand?” “Um . . . actually it sounds a bit abstract.” “Ha! The opposite, Thomas! Do you know why we love beautiful flowers? Because we love beauty!”
― Ted Dekker, Black

“most of the world believes that most of what actually happens, happens without our being able to see it. That’s a religious mainstay.”
― Ted Dekker, Black