Ted Dekker Quotes

The pain was so deep and so raw. There were days I would have died just to forget. The problem was, I couldn't figure out how to get her out of my mind. How do you kill that kind of pain?

Ted Dekker

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• “I gained your love then lost my mind. what a bargain. I love you impossibly loving you, my heart is holding more than it can loving you, is making me more than I am your beauty is more than what my soul can bear When I am dying of thirst you are water When I am drowning to death you are breath I love you impossibly I love you impossibly I'd trade my limbs to hold you I'd trade my eyes to see you”

  

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• The pain was so deep and so raw. There were days I would have died just to forget. The problem was, I couldn't figure out how to get her out of my mind. How do you kill that kind of pain?

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Mind
  • Kind
  • Problem