“Pain or perspective, that's the choice.'
. . .
You choose pain - you choose to fight it, deny it, bury it - then yes, the choice is always hard. But you choose perspective - embrace your history, give it credit for the better person it can make you, scars and all - the choice gets easier every time.”
― Ted Dekker, quote from Kiss
“The pain was so deep and so raw. There were days I would have died just to forget. The problem was, I couldn't figure out how to get her out of my mind. How do you kill that kind of pain?”
― Ted Dekker, quote from Kiss
“I've already said you can't take anything from me that I wouldn't freely give you.”
― Ted Dekker, quote from Kiss
“God is with me. Jesus is near. The Spirit is greater than my fear.”
― Ted Dekker, quote from Kiss
“And he wants you to keep that at the front of your mind? He wants you to stay focused on the darkest seasons of your life? How could that possibly do any good?'
. . .
He wants you to remember who delivered you from that time. That's the point of holding on to memory: delivery, not darkness.”
― Ted Dekker, quote from Kiss
“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, quote from Kiss
“You want to forget your pain. I mean to tell you that doing that will only cause you more hurt. - Khai”
― Ted Dekker, quote from Kiss
“It's rude to run off a guest.
It's rude to wear out your welcome.”
― Ted Dekker, quote from Kiss
“Pain was not God’s plan for this life. It is a reality, but it is not part of the plan.” I”
― Ted Dekker, quote from Kiss
Ted Dekker
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“But my foreknowledge must not encroach upon their free will. "In order not to impair human liberty, I will be ignorant of what I know, I will thicken upon my eyes the veils I have pierced, and in my blind clearsightedness I will let myself be surprised by what I have foreseen.”
― Anatole France, quote from Penguin Island
“Some people have a gift for making you feel okay, just by the fact of their presence.”
― Michelle Richmond, quote from The Year of Fog
“Feels like I'm in a play and I don't know all my lines.”
― Lisa McMann, quote from Dead to You
“As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself; because only through ordering what you know by comparing every truth with every other truth can you take complete possession of your knowledge and get it into your power.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, quote from The Wisdom of Life
“The past will let go of you if you let go of the past.”
― Timber Hawkeye, quote from Buddhist Boot Camp Manuscript
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