Thr3e Quotes

“Living is about clucking your tongue and enjoying the sound.
~Slater”
― Ted Dekker, Thr3e

“And does man simply choose evil, or does he create it?”
― Ted Dekker, Thr3e

“Though being freed from sin, most remain slaves, blinded and gagged by their own deception.”
― Ted Dekker, Thr3e

“I’m a skeptic of religious systems, not of the faith. Someday I will be happy to discuss the difference with you.”
― Ted Dekker, Thr3e

“There was no better way to understand life than to live it—if not through your own life, then through another’s. There was once a man who owned a field. Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. Not to read was to turn your back on the wisest minds.”
― Ted Dekker, Thr3e

“But if you look to your Maker, you'll find enough power to kill a thousand Slaters

- Dr. John Francis”
― Ted Dekker, Thr3e

“And does man simply choose evil, or does he create it?...Is evil a force that swims in human blood, struggling to find its way into the heart, or is it an external possibility wanting to be formed?”
― Ted Dekker, Thr3e

“It’s one of the first things an intelligent man like Kevin, who comes to the church later in life, notices. There is a pervasive incongruity between the church’s theology and the way most of us in the church live.” “Hypocrisy.” “One of its faces, yes. Hypocrisy. Saying one thing but doing another. Studying to be a priest while hiding a small cocaine addiction, for example. The world flushes this out and cries scandal. But the more ominous face isn’t nearly so obvious. This is what interested Kevin the most. He was quite astute, really.” “I’m not sure I follow. What’s not so obvious?” “The evil that lies in all of us,” the professor said. “Not blatant hypocrisy, but deception. Not even realizing that the sin we regularly commit is sin at all. Going about life honestly believing that we are pure when all along we are riddled with sin.” She looked at his gentle smile, taken by the simplicity of his words. “A preacher stands against the immorality of adultery, but all the while he harbors anger toward the third parishioner from the left because the parishioner challenged one of his teachings three months ago. Is anger not as evil as adultery? Or a woman who scorns the man across the aisle for alcoholic indiscretions, while she routinely gossips about him after services. Is gossip not as evil as any vice? What’s especially damaging in both cases is that neither the man who harbors anger nor the woman who gossips seriously considers the evil of their own actions. Their sins remain hidden. This is the true cancer in the church.”
― Ted Dekker, Thr3e

“Kmart special over here--one bad man with a stocking over his head, holding up a night crawler with a wallet. Give me your gun, buster.”
― Ted Dekker, Thr3e

“Look at me, see how I resemble a puddle of dog vomit? Won't you please throw your fingers to your teeth and be wildly fascinated by me?”
― Ted Dekker, Thr3e

“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.”
― Ted Dekker, Thr3e

“ritmo de un tambor oculto detrás de”
― Ted Dekker, Thr3e

“knee by the door,”
― Ted Dekker, Thr3e

“No leer es dar la espalda a las mentes más sabias.”
― Ted Dekker, Thr3e

“«Si te quedas en el hoy mucho tiempo, este se convierte en tu tumba».”
― Ted Dekker, Thr3e

“en sus asientos; Kevin”
― Ted Dekker, Thr3e