Ted Dekker Quotes

Soul is the central point of spiritual discipline.

They should regard me as what I am. I am a spiritual leader and teacher.

Well, I've always held down Guru… His spirit knows this.

People seek methods of learning to know God. Is it not much shorter and more direct to simply do everything for the love of Him? There is no finesse about it. One only has to do it generously and simply.

I'd met so many enlightened spiritual teachers that it became a challenge to select one. I believed in the oneness of spirituality - unconditional love for God, and unconditional compassion for the beings of this world - but I also understood that unless I chose a particular path, I couldn't focus and take blessings from teachers that would allow me to have deep realizations and spiritual experiences.

I never pigeonhole myself into any religion, but I feel it has found me. I am trying to make sense of it... the essence of the Mathangi concept.

If we're interested in spiritual things, we gradually realize that what we really need is to understand this nature that seems to be a bottomless basket, because there is no peace in it.

A steady diet of the higher truths might prove exhausting, but it's important that we acknowledge their validity and celebrate their survival.

Our bodies... are the tabernacles of our spirits.

Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.

A sincere seeker knows what his goal is: the highest Truth. He will not delay his journey. In spiritual life, we aspire for the highest Truth, for God, nothing else.

You can have financial strength, professional strength, emotional strength but for me without spiritual strength none of the rest of it matters.

I first began to read religious books at school, and especially the Bible, when I was eleven years old; and almost immediately commenced a habit of secret prayer.

We can't give the truth to someone as an object, we can only point to it, inviting inspection. It is in that spirit that we can hear or read a teaching and then look at our own lives, at our own experiences to see whether anything might have been revealed about them.

There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.

There is no teacher, living or past, who can give us the actual understanding of Truth. A teacher can only put our feet upon the path and point the way. That is all. It is wholly dependent on the individual to make his way to Truth.

I have my own spiritual guru, and I'm so happy, and I feel so satisfied that I might appreciate many other famous gurus, but, you know, I am not attracted that way because I have found the person.

The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.

That I feel a desire, my friends, that we in this latter day of the world, in which light is fast spreading, that we should be willing to attend to those portions of the Scriptures of truth that direct us home to the foundation.

If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.

An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave.

I've always said that God will somehow enlighten me.

The tree has been always an allegory for spiritual growth.

Faith is not a product of reflection, nor is it even an attempt to penetrate the depths of my own being.

I fight demons.