Todd Burpo famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

You might as well tell God what you think. He already knows it anyway.
-- Todd Burpo

#Thinking #Might #Wells
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

#Jesus #Children #Kids
...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

#Son #Lap #Comfort
A friend of ours, the wife of a pastor at a church in Colorado, had once told me about something her daughter, Hannah, said when she was three years old. After the morning service was over one Sunday, Hannah tugged on her mom's skirt and asked. "Mommy, why do some people in church have lights over their heads and some don't?" At the time, I remember thinking two things: First, I would've knelt down and asked Hannah, "Did I have a light over my head? Please say yes!" I also wondered what Hannah had seen, and whether she had seen it because, like my son, she had a childlike faith.
-- Todd Burpo

#Mom #Daughter #Morning
Sometimes laughter is the only way to process tough times
-- Todd Burpo

#Laughter #Tough Times #Way
In a boxing match, the fighters absorb some vicious blows because theyâ€™re ready for them. And usually, the knockout punch is the one they didnâ€™t see coming.
-- Todd Burpo

#Blow #Boxing #Fighter
What is childlike humility? Itâ€™s not the lack of intelligence, but the lack of guile. The lack of an agenda.
-- Todd Burpo

#Humility #Agendas #Guile
It is the opposite of ignoranceâ€”it is intellectual honesty: to be willing to accept reality and to call things what they are even when it is hard.
-- Todd Burpo

#Honesty #Ignorance #Reality
How do you scare some sense into a child who doesnâ€™t fear death?
-- Todd Burpo

#Children #Scare #Fear Of Death
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

#Daughter #Jesus #Fun
The Bible's been attacked. What is truth? It's relative.
-- Todd Burpo

#Relative
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

#Dad #Liars #Book
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

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

#Spiritual #Jesus #Hands

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