The Girl behind the Red Rope Quotes

“When you attach yourself to this life, you blind yourself to who you are, and in that blindness you believe you’re separate from the light and can be threatened.”
― Ted Dekker, The Girl behind the Red Rope

“the very idea of living without fear was like trying to live without truth.”
― Ted Dekker, The Girl behind the Red Rope

“Yes, Jesus, who made a way for all to see and be who they are beyond their blindness. This is the only way to know yourself in and as the light. You don’t let go of the world because it’s bad. You let go because your attachment to your fear-based self blinds you to who you are as the light. Simple.” He turned around in a circle, gazing at an invisible horizon. “Here, with so few distractions, letting go will be easier for you.” His eyes were bright. “Ready?” “For what?” He spun”
― Ted Dekker, The Girl behind the Red Rope

“The only way to know yourself in and as the light is to let go of all your attachments to who you think you are in this world. You know the sayings: hate your entire life, deny yourself, take up the cross. All these mean the same thing. Let go of the meaning you give life in all your judgments of value based on the knowledge of good and evil. You’ve heard this?” “Jesus said those things,” I said, knowing the verses well.”
― Ted Dekker, The Girl behind the Red Rope

“Imagine an infinite love that is unconditional. That can’t be provoked or threatened. In that love you’ll see fear for what it truly is: a shadow.” She was beside herself with joy. “Imagine that! Shadows that we’ve gone into agreement with. But in love, the Fury vanish, because there is no fear in love, just like there’s no darkness in light.”
― Ted Dekker, The Girl behind the Red Rope

“Death is just a shadow, Jamie. I’m not afraid of shadows anymore. You can live with fear if you like, but it only draws more fear. Everything I said is true. All of it.”
― Ted Dekker, The Girl behind the Red Rope

“My mind filled with a knowing that set my bloodstream on fire and transported me to a different kind of awareness. With my eyes open to the kingdom of heaven, I saw.”
― Ted Dekker, The Girl behind the Red Rope

“The kingdom of heaven is the perception of light. If your perception is clear, you will see that your whole body is full of light. Only blindness keeps anyone from seeing it.”
― Ted Dekker, The Girl behind the Red Rope

“Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, because it’s only a shadow.”
― Ted Dekker, The Girl behind the Red Rope

“And in that moment, I understood not only my fears but the fears of the world. A man jealous of another man who took his wife. A mother upset at her child for disobeying. A truck driver worried he wouldn’t be able to feed his family. A country putting up defenses at its borders to keep enemies out. A pastor worried he wasn’t serving the flock well enough. On they went—a million fears that blinded humanity to the light of love. None of the fears were less damaging than others, I saw. Anger was as destructive as murder.”
― Ted Dekker, The Girl behind the Red Rope

“The world had made an agreement with fear to keep it safe, but that safety was a lie wielded like a sword, turning the world into a sea of blood. Humanity had been murdering itself for a very long time. Only love could cast out that fear.”
― Ted Dekker, The Girl behind the Red Rope

“Now my fears were showing themselves in fullness for all to see what they truly were. My creations. My Fury didn’t have faces, but if they did, they would all be versions of me, and for the first time I truly understood them for what they were. My self-pity, my anxiousness, my anger, my hopelessness, my judgment, my self-criticism, my worthlessness, my victimhood, my self-righteousness, my disapproval of others, my fear of being deceived, my need to control any situation, my guilt . . .”
― Ted Dekker, The Girl behind the Red Rope

“They weren’t spirits or demons or entities. They were fear—the same kind everyone in the world hosted without knowing it.”
― Ted Dekker, The Girl behind the Red Rope

“In this world you will have troubles,” he said. “It’s okay. They are all only opportunities to let go and see yourself as you truly are. Be glad, because the light has overcome and all those troubles are only shadows.”
― Ted Dekker, The Girl behind the Red Rope

“Love, dear one. The love that knows no wrong like the light knows no darkness.”
― Ted Dekker, The Girl behind the Red Rope

“Simple. Surrender. Repent. But true repentance is changing what you’ve been taught to believe about reality. Everyone thinks they’re right. So changing your mind is much harder than changing your behavior by following a set of laws and saying the right prayers. That means nothing unless it awakens you to love. Changing what you think feels like a kind of death to the old self who rules your life in judgment, but as you repent, you awaken to the light you’ve always been. Being born again.”
― Ted Dekker, The Girl behind the Red Rope

“The light you’ve always been. Better to lose your whole life in body than to remain lost to the light that you are. But you cling to your experience of this life and fear loss. See? You’ve made an agreement with fear to keep you safe. It’s your master.”
― Ted Dekker, The Girl behind the Red Rope

“Your problem is that you worship the death of the body. You think it’s the final watershed that determines everything. It’s not. It’s no more than the shedding of a costume.”
― Ted Dekker, The Girl behind the Red Rope

“The wisdom of the world dresses up as helpful protection while binding you to fear,”
― Ted Dekker, The Girl behind the Red Rope

“But you too can see truth. You too can be freed from the blindness of fear and see with new eyes. In that new sight, you will see light instead of darkness. When you see the light, you will know love instead of fear because in love, there is no fear. In love, there is no record of wrong. Unless you know that love, everything you believe is worthless and gains you nothing, Christian or not. I come as a way-shower. But it’s up to you to follow the way.”
― Ted Dekker, The Girl behind the Red Rope

“But you too can see truth. You too can be freed from the blindness of fear and see with new eyes. In that new sight, you will see light instead of darkness.”
― Ted Dekker, The Girl behind the Red Rope

“Why would this teacher not be afraid in the face of such a terrible threat? Unless what he saw and what the others saw were two different realities. Where they saw a threat, he slept in peace. This was perhaps his greatest miracle, much greater than the healing of a rash.”
― Ted Dekker, The Girl behind the Red Rope

“There’s a story about a boat caught in a terrible storm. All the passengers were terrified except one, who slept in peace even as the waves pounded the boat, threatening the lives of all on board. They called that one Yeshua. The others rushed to him and begged him to save them. He stood and asked them one question. ‘Why are you afraid, you of little faith?”
― Ted Dekker, The Girl behind the Red Rope

“We watched him go, stunned and confused. At least I did. What he said made sense in my old way of being. Sylous was an angel, sent with the word of God to the elect. He had to be.”
― Ted Dekker, The Girl behind the Red Rope

“I spun back and saw Eli standing in the midst of the chaos, undisturbed. I rushed for him, grabbed his arm, and fell to my knees before him. “Save us!” I cried. Surely he could, with the power I had seen him use. He looked down at me lovingly and smiled. “Remember, Grace, you are the light!” he cried above the cacophony. “Just like me.”
― Ted Dekker, The Girl behind the Red Rope

“Evelyn, still sobbing, raised her ungloved hand. We all saw it at the same time. The skin on her hand was clean, free of any redness or rash. Rose pushed up the sleeve on Evelyn’s arm to reveal more beautiful skin. “He healed me,” Evelyn said, staring at her skin. “He saved me.”
― Ted Dekker, The Girl behind the Red Rope

“Eli reached out and took the girl’s hand in his own. Almost immediately, the cords of fear retreated into her body.”
― Ted Dekker, The Girl behind the Red Rope

“Cords of darkness were wrapped around her arms, chest and neck. They didn’t retreat as Stephen’s had.”
― Ted Dekker, The Girl behind the Red Rope

“The fog surrounding the boy retreated when Eli stopped not ten feet from him.”
― Ted Dekker, The Girl behind the Red Rope

“Like the others, the children were clouded in a thin fog, though the cords of darkness weren’t as developed.”
― Ted Dekker, The Girl behind the Red Rope