43 Quotes by 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.

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

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.

I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.” – JESUS OF NAZARETH.

Sometimes laughter is the only way to process tough times.

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.

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.

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.

A student is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his master.”1.