Ted Dekker Quotes

I think we both have some darkness in us. But when we are together, we tend to concentrate more on the light.

It's important to know that if you are dealing with shadows.

So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

Shadow owes its birth to light.

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.

My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.

I'm drawn to the dark but not the nihilistic aspects, the relentless parts, of darkness.

There's the way that light shows in darkness, and it is extremely beautiful. And I think it essentializes the experience of being human, to see light in darkness.

Light does not come from light, but from darkness.

Heaven might shine bright, but so do flames.

The brightest flame casts the darkest shadow.

Suddenly there was a great burst of light through the Darkness. The light spread out and where it touched the Darkness the Darkness disappeared. The light spread until the patch of Dark Thing had vanished, and there was only a gentle shining, and through the shining came the stars, clear and pure.

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

Perhaps [transgression] is like a flash of lightning in the night which, from the beginning of time, gives a dense and black intensity to the night it denies, which lights up the night from the inside, from top to bottom, yet owes to the dark the stark clarity of its manifestation, its harrowing and poised singularity.

Darkness is absence of light. Shadow is diminution of light.

Do not fight the darkness, let the light in and the darkness will disappear.

If you want to end darkness you cannot beat it with a baseball bat, you have to turn on a light.

You can make it dark, but I can't make it light.

When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.

The first light had cast the first shadow.

A luminous body will appear more brilliant in proportion as it is surrounded by deeper shadow.

The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness cannot understand it

Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.