Burpo Heaven Quotes

#1. Come on," she said, smiling for the first time since she'd stepped on the plane. "We need to get to the bus before Ian plugs his iPod into the speakers."
Dan shuddered. "I'd rather face a thousand Vespers than listen to Beethoven.

Clifford Riley

#2. Well, I'm not scared of death because I know where I'm going. And the funny thing is that the worst thing Satan can throw at you is death. So if I get death, I get heaven.

Colton Burpo

#3. 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.

Todd Burpo

#4. I'd wanted to be a writer my whole life. But when I finally made it, I felt like a greyhound catching the mechanical rabbit she'd been chasing for so long
discovering it was merely metal, wrapped in cloth. It wasn't alive; it had no spirit. It was fake.

Anne Lamott

#5. I just want to feel as much as I can, it's what soul is all about.

Janis Joplin

#6. I'm useless with a sword in real life.

John Bradley-West

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

Todd Burpo

#8. 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.

Todd Burpo

#9. Bright youth passes swiftly as a thought.

Theognis Of Megara

#10. Do not drink coffee in early A.M. It will keep you awake until noon. Do not go from the slavery of the Communist regime to the slavery of consumerism.

Pope John Paul II

#11. The great need is for us to be taught theologically, not just stirred emotionally.

Alistair Begg

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

Todd Burpo

#13. 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.

Todd Burpo

#14. When you really thought about it crying was a rather bizarre thing for any creature to be capable of. What purpose did it serve other than revealing too much?

Kitty Thomas

#15. Had I been a man I might have explored the Poles or climbed Mount Everest, but as it was my spirit found outlet in the air ...

Amy Johnson

#16. Hollywood's all about, 'Let's make this easy: This is what you do, so you go over here in this group, and we're not gonna call you.'

Ted McGinley

#17. The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society.

Fulton J. Sheen