Todd Burpo Quotes

#1. Being a pastor, of course, obviously people would say it (shouldn't) have done much but, boy, it sure gave me a peace I never had before. I think we struggle in life. Even people of faith struggle when things don't work out quite the way we think they should.

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#2. Jesus has markers.

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#3. A student is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his master."1

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#4. Jesus told me that he died on the cross so we could go see his Dad - Colton Burpo

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#5. We'd been given a gift and our job now was to unwrap it ... and see what's inside.

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#6. Yeah, she said she just can't wait for you and Daddy to get to heaven. ... From that moment on, the wound from one of the most painful episodes in our lives, losing a child we had wanted very much, began to heal.

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#7. We learned the value of being vulnerable enough to let others be strong for us, to let others bless us. That, it turned out, was a blessing to them as well.

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#8. Like an engineer understands a car he or she designed, no one understands your limitations and possibilities better than the God who created you.

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#9. Where are there lots of colors, Colton?" "In Heaven, Dad. That's where all the rainbow colors are!

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#10. As a pastor and as a dad, I want my son to know I tell the truth. He can read the book. He knows if I exaggerated or if I didn't. My son is forever gonna believe that I'm an honest person or I'm a liar by what I wrote in that book, because he can read.

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#11. Cassie suggested He's Back, but He's No Angel.

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#12. Jesus clearly viewed children as precious - and that if he loved kids enough to say that adults should be more like them, we should spend more time loving them too.

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#13. The Scripture says that as Jesus gave up his spirit, as he sagged there, lifeless on that Roman cross, God the Father turned his back. I am convined that he did that because if he kept on watching, he couldn't have gone through with it.

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#14. If I'd let my mind roll with that boxing metaphor just a little longer, I might've followed it to its logical conclusion: In a boxing match, the fighters absorb some vicious blows because they're ready for them. And usually, the knockout punch is the one they didn't see coming

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#15. When I was angry at God because I couldn't go to my son, hold him, and comfort him, God's son was holding my son in his lap.

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#16. The Bible's been attacked. What is truth? It's relative.

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#17. You might as well tell God what you think. He already knows it anyway.

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#18. I'd once heard a spiritual "riddle" that went like this: "What's the only thing
in heaven that's the same as it was on earth?"
The answer: the wounds in Jesus' hands and feet.

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#19. Is heaven a hope or as real as the earth and sky?

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#20. Now was not the time to quit and mourn. Now was the time for prayer and action.

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#21. I think sometimes we think faith is about having all the answers. It isn't. But (it's) the thing that keeps you steady and in peace in the midst of storms.

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#22. It's fun to talk about heaven, about the throne of God and Jesus and Pop and the daughter we thought we had lost but will meet again someday. But it's not fun to talk about how we got there.

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#23. How do you scare some sense into a child who doesn't fear death?

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#24. Sometimes laughter is the only way to process tough times

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