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61 " Know that you are loved, my dear...Know that you can and will rise above all your fears. I now call you water walker. Water Walker? Yes, you walked through the waters of your fear, didn't you? "
― Ted Dekker , Water Walker (The Outlaw Chronicles, #2)
62 " 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 (The Circle, #1)
63 " Just because someone sees the truth doesn't mean they will accept it or allow that truth to change them. "
― Ted Dekker , Sinner (Paradise, #3)
64 " How can you hope to recognize good and evil for what they truly are if you have no belief in a moral authority greater than yourself? "
65 " Grow up? Get herself straightened out? Her mind reeled from the verbal battering. No matter what she did, her father would tell her she was wrong. Worthless. Undeserving. "
― Ted Dekker , Kiss
66 " But what was possible or practical had been replaced by a far baser impulse. Hope. "
― Ted Dekker , Forbidden (The Books of Mortals, #1)
67 " When did speaking your beliefs become synonymous with forcing them upon others? "
68 " The power of belief alone could change the course of history. "
― Ted Dekker , Infidel (The Lost Books, #2)
69 " Do you know what hope and fear have in common?... They both hold great power. But that power is dependent on both fear and hope together. Think about it. Without the fear of something terrible, you cannot have the hope that it won't happen, you see? Without having hope for something wonderful, you can't have any fear of losing it. They work together, the two most powerful forces we possess. "
― Ted Dekker , Obsessed
70 " Though being freed from sin, most remain slaves, blinded and gagged by their own deception. "
― Ted Dekker , Thr3e
71 " ...I once thought I defeated the evil in my heart. I learned something: We can face our demons, burn them up, stomp them into the ground. I turned mine to ashes. But even if you destroy the evidence of evil, you can't heal your heart. Not by yourself. "
― Ted Dekker , Green: The Beginning and the End (The Circle, #0)
72 " Not evil. Not any more evil than the colored trees are good.Evil and good reside in the heart, not in trees and water. "
73 " That was the advantage of a young mind--believing was easier. "
― Ted Dekker , Chosen (The Lost Books, #1)
74 " We've stepped off the cliff and are falling into madness. "
― Ted Dekker , Red: The Heroic Rescue (The Circle, #2)
75 " What was once obvious to them was no longer quite as obvious. Why was it that humans lost sight of truth so quickly? "
76 " Love? You have no understanding that to love is to give, not to take. "
― Ted Dekker , Immanuel's Veins
77 " The day is brimming with freedom. He took another draw of the air. There's nothing like the clean smell of freedom, wouldn't you say Eden? "
78 " You should know something, Miriam.... God changed our futures yesterday. There's no other explanation for what happened. And it wasn't the first God. If you ever need hlep, you might want to try the second God. "
― Ted Dekker , Blink
79 " You'll have to learn to control your emotions. They're new, like achild's now, bursting with passion. Never let them fade, or part of you will die. But they cal also destroy you. Hold them dear, but don't let them take hold of you. "
80 " ...a person who finds silence and solitude boring is a person who is himself boring, empty of anything worth consideration. "
― Ted Dekker , Saint (Paradise, #2)