Quotes about Belief
Her fear was gone, not only mostly, but completely, because it had been sustained by an illusion that was no longer part of her reality. The
— Ted Dekker
Mine was less a crisis of doctrine than a crisis of experience.
— Ted Dekker
Thus to believe in Him is also to believe in your true, glorified self.
— Ted Dekker
What matters isn't our stated belief and doctrine but how we live and what we experience in the story of our lives, as Jesus, John, James, and Paul all make so abundantly clear. It's our actual experience and expression of life that shows us and the world what we truly believe and to what extent we truly love, not what we say we believe or who we say we love. If we say we have faith, but the workings of our life don't reflect that faith, that faith is either asleep or dead.
— Ted Dekker
Fear is the devil, always, and throws on into darkness. To accept is the best way ~Saba
— Ted Dekker
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most of the world believes that most of what actually happens, happens without our being able to see it. That's a religious mainstay.
— Ted Dekker
The path into this eternal realm is faith—belief in, not about, Yeshua. Intimately knowing the father, not merely knowing about him with the mind. Even the devils know all about God and it profits them nothing. Even calling him Lord and doing many miraculous works in his name means little. Only knowing him intimately, as an infant knows.
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It's not that Christianity has failed; it's that so few Christians have really tried it. If you were in the truth, you would know love without fear. You think you're saved from some future hell, but as you can see, it's all around you. Fear has invaded you and blinded you to the light.
— Ted Dekker
We're good Christians, so how can the Fury blind us?" "Actually, you serve fear. You think it will save you, but fear can't save you. Only love can, and God is love. You can choose the light, which shows itself as love, or you can choose darkness, which shows itself as fear. Not both.
— Ted Dekker
But all will be well, and all will be well, and every kind of thing will be well.
— Julian of Norwich
Just because I am a woman, must I therefore believe that I must not tell you about the goodness of God, when I saw at the same time both his goodness and his wish that it should be shown?
— Julian of Norwich