Eyes Wide Open Quotes

“She was complete, wholly restored without even a hint of any need for further correction. The”
― Ted Dekker, Eyes Wide Open

“The good news is, you can love yourself because you, too, are now love. Everything else is of your own making: a lie you believe; a story from an accuser that ravages you and keeps you locked in that cage of hell.”
― Ted Dekker, Eyes Wide Open

“Unlike most people,” Fisher said, “questions are what make you tick. Knowing is what gives you a reason to roll out of bed in the morning, because you’re not just in search of knowledge. Facts are never enough. You’re after something else, something more fundamental. You’re after the truth.” Fisher”
― Ted Dekker, Eyes Wide Open

“Even the bins looked beautiful to her. They simply were what they were and were doing a splendid job being just that.”
― Ted Dekker, Eyes Wide Open

“It was her false self that was confused, thinking that it knew what ugly was and stewing in it, trying to be good enough when there was no such thing. The ugliness had been corrected a long time ago through forgiveness. It was time to forgive herself and surrender to the truth. She”
― Ted Dekker, Eyes Wide Open

“The only correction you ever really need is in your perception of who you already are as a child of your Father.”
― Ted Dekker, Eyes Wide Open

“It was real. Not your actual father, no, but the one who tells you that you’re not good enough. That you don’t belong. The one we all secretly fear when the lights are off. The one that religion has turned into a god made in their own image, capable of hatred.”
― Ted Dekker, Eyes Wide Open

“she was curious to track down that bird, if only to see that it was free. Or, perhaps more accurately, to know that she was free from that desperate search for identity that had imprisoned her. She was now complete, just as she was. So”
― Ted Dekker, Eyes Wide Open

“To Christy it all sounded and smelled exquisitely beautiful, like tiny bits of heaven sprinkled through the halls for their enjoyment. But none of it compared to the overwhelming surge of wonder that met her as she pushed through the doors at Austin’s side. The first thing she saw was the sky—a brilliant gray so rich in hue and laced with such wispy strands of white that she gasped. She knew that anyone else might see the same sky and frown, but to her it was a staggering canvas, majestically painted just so. They”
― Ted Dekker, Eyes Wide Open

“Her fear was gone, not only mostly, but completely, because it had been sustained by an illusion that was no longer part of her reality. The”
― Ted Dekker, Eyes Wide Open

“See with lamps on, Christy. Eyes wide open. See yourself as beautiful. The”
― Ted Dekker, Eyes Wide Open

“There are no longer any problems to solve. If there are no longer any problems to solve, there’s no longer any need for correction. If there’s no need for correction, then there’s no need for law. Live in the grace of that which is now perfect, as it is. Be perfect, don’t try to become perfect. You already are, you just don’t know it yet. Be still and know.”
― Ted Dekker, Eyes Wide Open