Ted Dekker Quotes

Faith is Doubt.

To believe is to be strong. Doubt cramps energy. Belief is power.

Believe it!

To believe is to be happy; to doubt is to be wretched. To believe is to be strong. Doubt cramps energy. Belief is power. Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do any thing that is worth the doing.

When you have no defensiveness about what you think but rather you totally believe it, you are passionate about it.

I now had enough faith not only to believe there were answer, but to feel certain that those answers would become apparent at some point in the future.

I believe in believing.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.

Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.

It is easier to believe than to doubt.

I'm actually not a big fan of the word hope. I think it's a depressing word. I don't want to hope - I want to know. Like I don't hope there's a God, I know there's a God.

Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing.

To me, the definition of faith is to fear nothing.

Everyone's got to have a bit of faith.

There is a fine line between faith and confidence. Confidence has a self-reliance. Faith is really about giving in.

I don't believe. I know.

If you believe, then you hang on. If you believe, it means you've got imagination, you don't need stuff thrown out on a blueprint, and don't face facts-what can stop you? If I don't make it today, I'll come in tomorrow.

Take a chance on faith - not religion, but faith. Not hope, but faith. I don’t believe in hope. Hope is a beggar. Hope walks through the fire. Faith leaps over it.

My advice to you is never stop believing.

But what really matters is not what you believe but the faith and conviction with which you believe.

Only those who believe attempt the seemingly impossible.

When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.

I wanted to get it all down, maybe out of my system. I wanted to be able to say, Everything's possible-if you believe and can get excited.

I do not believe...I know.