A person who finds silence and solitude boring is a person who is himself boring, empty of anything worth consideration.
--Ted Dekker
Adrenaline dulls reason; panic kills it.
--Ted Dekker
And does man simply choose evil, or does he create it?
--Ted Dekker
Dive deep. Drown willingly.
--Ted Dekker
In the end you will be your own undoing. You can't escape you.
--Ted Dekker
It's critical that we use a very dark brush to paint evil.
--Ted Dekker
It's the sorrow you feel that allows you to crave love. Without the suffering, there would be no true pleasure. Without tears, no joy. Without deficiency, no longing. This is the secret of the human heart...
--Ted Dekker
Knowing you're worthless doesn't give you value any more than knowing you are a captive sets you free.
--Ted Dekker
Most very brilliant or creative people seem strange to ordinary people. Geniuses are almost always outcasts. The intelligent are bullied on the playground. They see the world differently and are shunned for it. They nearly all turn out to be lonely at the least, locked up at the worst. It's human nature to encourage the status quo and shun those who see life differently.
--Ted Dekker
Our lives hang in the balance of unpredictable situations... 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
Sin thrives in the dungeon, but slap it on the table for all to see, and it withers rather quickly.
--Ted Dekker
The light came into the darkness, and the darkness did not understand it, but that no longer mattered because the light was now obliteration the darkness.
--Ted Dekker
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
Turn to the light. Don't fear the shadow it creates.
--Ted Dekker
When you step away from it all, you lose perspective.
--Ted Dekker
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