Ted Dekker Quotes

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

Seeing the Way is like going into a dark room with a torch; the darkness instantly departs, while the light alone remains. When the Way is attained and the truth is seen, ignorance vanishes and enlightenment abides forever.

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which enlighten.

In complete darkness, it is only knowledge and wisdom that separates us.

You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.

On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries.

There is no darkness but ignorance.

The true division of humanity is between those who live in light and those who live in darkness. Our aim must be to diminish the number of the latter and increase the number of the former. That is why we demand education and knowledge.

Her light shall pierce through the darkness of ignorance and man’s oppression.

Fire and light compete today in the East. But there is a lot of green firewood in this fire, and there is a lot of smoke in that light.

Is it eradicating evil? Or are we like children, left alone in the house at night, who light candle after candle to keep away the darkness. We don't see that the darkness has a purpose — though we may not understand it — and so, in our terror, we end up burning down the house!

Evil (ignorance) is like a shadow-- it has no real substance of its own, it is simply a lack of light. You cannot cause a shadow to disappear by trying to fight it, stamp on it, by railing against it, or any other form of emotional or physical resistance. In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must shine light on it

As the dead rise to live, the live sink to die, the currents are deep and raging inside.

Genius is a light which makes the darkness visible, like the lightning's flash, which perchance shatters the temple of knowledge itself.

Education brightens a darkened world.

Darkness, that here surrounds our purblind understanding, will vanish at the dawning of eternal day.

And so Nat stood up and joined the group, and followed, and watched, and awaited his chance as the light of Chaos lit the plain and gods and demons marched to war.

Jon passes from Darkness to Light.

The one thing I don't understand is war.

You can't discover light, by analyzing the dark.

The price of light is less than the cost of darkness.

In order to understand, I destroyed myself.

Like a lamp, dispelling the darkness of ignorance

Ignorance is death, knowledge is life. Life is of very little value, if it is a life in the dark, groping through ignorance and misery.