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

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Source : Todd Burpo, Sonja Burpo (2015). “Heaven Changes Everything: The Rest of Our Story”, p.35, Thomas Nelson Inc

Todd Burpo

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“Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.”
“... ideals, standards, aspirations,--those are chameleon words, and take color from their speakers,--often false tints. A scholarly man of my acquaintance once told me that he traveled a thousand miles into the desert to get away from the word uplift, and it was the first word he heard after he reached his destination.”
“There's no real nationalism in this county. If you're poor in America, that's a criminal offense. You're not only a criminal for being poor, but you're also stupid and deficient. We don't have this national feeling of fraternity. We live in an individualist state where everyone hates everyone else, except your immediate family. We live in a mafia state.”

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“Parenthood is such a lesson in self-sacrifice.”
“The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.”
“Some people are afraid of change and [feel] that getting older is a bad thing, but I really love maturing and gaining wisdom, and the experience of being pregnant and having a child and seeing what a woman's body can do is amazing.”
“The greatness of non-violent resistance is that even as man is faced with tyranny, and the resulting suffering, he responds to hate with love, to prejudice with tolerance, to arrogance with humility, to humiliation with dignity, and to violence with reason.”
“Arise, O Lord, and judge your own cause. Remember your reproaches to those who are filled with foolishness all through the day. Listen to our prayers, for foxes have arisen seeking to destroy the vineyard whose winepress you alone have trod.”

Source : "Exsurge Domine" by Pope Leo X, June 15, 1520.

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