43 Quotes by Todd Burpo

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.

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.

Jesus has markers.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.