"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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Source : Todd Burpo (2011). “Heaven is for Real Deluxe Edition: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back”, p.107, Thomas Nelson Inc

Todd Burpo

#Jesus Quotes #Children Quotes #Kids Quotes

“I've lost my faith in science.”
“I think political people are afraid of me.”
“Every child needs a champion.”
“there is a danger, when thinking of the earliest civilized people, of putting too much emphasis on technology. One tends to assume that if you don't have, at least, a lavatory and perhaps something that will take you a lot faster than your own feet, or a certain number of gadgets in the house, then you must be in some way, a bit backward and defective ... the important thing to remember is that technology is not necessarily the same thing as civilization.”
“I've always wished that I had a great ability to verbalize art theory and find a way that I fit in to the whole lineage, but I don't have a clue.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“In my heart I mean well. But if you help me to grow, then what I have in my heart will begin to show.”
“You should never employ your intellect but only that it is not essential to exercise it in order to live a humane life. Language permeates all of life, of course, and one's mind is essential to it, but that does not mean intellectuality should transcend all of life.”
“Whether people like your work or not, but it's also based on a lot of other things - geography, who you happen to connect with and where they sit in that ladder - and all of that felt really isolating and disheartening to me when I figured it out.”

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