Ted Dekker Quotes

God is truth and light his shadow.

Jesus lived a life that was full of joy and contradictions and fights, you know? If they were to paint a picture of Jesus without contradictions, the gospels would be fake, but the contradictions are a sign of authenticity.

Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine.

I walked over and looked closer at the statue of the goddess. She was wearing a headdress with a skull and a cobra and a crescent moon. Maybe this is what peace of mind was all about: having a poisonous snake on your head and smiling anyway.

I was raised to believe that religion is a beautiful thing, but it's fiction.

The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity.

I embody EVERYTHING from the Godly to the party.

I've come to learn that theology matters. It matters not because we want to impress people, but because what we know about God shapes the way we think and live. Theology matters because if we get it wrong then our whole life will be wrong.

Scripture is like a lion. Who ever heard of defending a lion? Just turn it loose; it will defend itself.

Elvis Presley wore a Star of David and a cross around his neck and, when someone asked him about it, he said, "It makes me think." I love that quote. It's simple. It's beautiful. It's true.

Religions are such stuff as dreams are made of.

A religious belief is not a statement about Reality, but a hint, a clue about something that is a mystery, beyond the grasp of human thought. In short, a religious belief is only a finger pointing to the moon. Some religious people never get beyond the study of the finger. Others are engaged in sucking it. Others yet use the finger to gouge their eyes out. These are the bigots whom religion has made blind. Rare indeed is the religionist who is sufficiently detached from the finger to see what it is indicating - these are those who, having gone beyond belief, are taken for blasphemers.

What I like about the Bible is that it doesn't make sense, which makes it more like truth than anything else I've ever read.

And so the lion fell in love with the lamb.

Though God may be Love, God is Truth above all.

fiction is the great lie that tells the truth

I believe in invisible; I do not believe in visible.

Religion is a light bulb, created by man to help him to see in the dark.

A myth is a lie that conveys a truth.

If we ignore it the truth that God is love may slyly come to mean for us the converse, that love is God.

People ask me if I believe in things: in God, in astrology, and I say, absolutely! I believe in everything! And I believe in its opposite. Like the positive and negative volts on a battery, you need both for power.

I believe with perfect faith that the Creator, blessed be his name, is not a body, and that he is free from all accidents of matter, and that he has not any form whatsoever.

The Garden is a metaphor for the following: our minds, and our thinking in terms of pairs of opposites--man and woman, good and evil--are as holy as that of a god. (50)

We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more. Even Vagabond - it was a fiction but it was really a documentary. I mean, it has the texture of documentary. Even if I made up every line, it has the texture of being true.

In fact, it is more correct to say that Truth is God, than to say that God is Truth.