Quotes About Burpo

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

Todd Burpo

#2. Possession means nothing when the opponent takes its chances

Franz Beckenbauer

#3. Once they were the same age. Now Leah is aging in dog years. Her thirty-five is seven times his, and seven times more important, so important he has to keep reminding her of the numbers, in case she forgets.

Zadie Smith

#4. 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.

Todd Burpo

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

Todd Burpo

#6. If you don't have faith in your own abilities, it's never going to be anything more than potential

Jon Skovron

#7. Maybe friendship was loving someone even when you didn't always understand them.

Sarah Morgan

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

Todd Burpo

#9. 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

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

Todd Burpo

#11. Peter had even named it once, when he said that he could always see what other people hated most about themselves, and bully them, while Val could always see what other people liked best about themselves, and flatter them.

Orson Scott Card

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

Todd Burpo

#13. If you examine your life well, you will find many instances when God showed His unmistakable mercy to you. Trouble was brewing, but it passed you by for some reason. God delivered you. Acknowledge these and thank God, Who loves you.

Theophan The Recluse

#14. 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.

Todd Burpo

#15. Around 2008 when the writers' strike happened, all my stuff was getting stuck in development, and I thought, 'I'm going to try my hand at horror because I always loved it as a kid.'

Drew Daywalt

#16. 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

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

Todd Burpo

#18. You are the byproduct of your level of consciousness, thoughts, and actions.

Debasish Mridha

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

Todd Burpo

#20. 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

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

Todd Burpo

#22. 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.

Todd Burpo

#23. To be clear: an ideology is a belief system with an inadequate basis in reality; a religion is a belief system with no basis in reality whatever.

Martin Amis

#24. Jesus has markers.

Todd Burpo

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

Todd Burpo

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

Todd Burpo

#27. 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

#28. When she doesn't want to think about something sad or hurtful, she does what she instructed her own children and those she taught to do: Close your eyes and go somewhere safe and good. Picture something good.

Jill McCorkle

#29. 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.

Todd Burpo

#30. There's writing power in one word sentences and one sentence paragraphs. Wise authors use them. -Judith Briles

Judith Briles

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

Todd Burpo

#32. Set a timer and compete to beat the clock to conquer procrastination.

Monika Kristofferson

#33. 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.

Todd Burpo

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

Todd Burpo

#35. Nothing ever really goes away
it just changes into something else. Something beautiful.

Sarah Ockler

#36. 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.

Todd Burpo

#37. 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.

Todd Burpo

#38. 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

Todd Burpo