Todd Burpo Quotes

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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

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

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

Todd Burpo

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

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

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

It is the opposite of ignorance—it is intellectual honesty: to be willing to accept reality and to call things what they are even when it is hard.

Todd Burpo

What is childlike humility? It's not the lack of intelligence, but the lack of guile. The lack of an agenda.

Todd Burpo