43 Quotes by Todd Burpo

The wall was built of jasper, while the city was pure gold, clear as glass. The foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with every kind of jewel. The first was jasper, the second sapphire, the third agate, the fourth emerald, the fifth onyx, the sixth carnelian, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, the twelfth amethyst.2.

I realized for the first time that I had been feeling like I’d been in a fight. For months, I’d had my guard up, waiting for the next punch life could throw.

What we learned during those challenges was that we learn more during challenges than while life is good!

Asking me to sit down while I delivered the Sunday message was like asking an Italian to talk without using his hands.

A friend of ours, the wife of a pastor at a church in Colorado, had once told me about something her daughter, Hannah, said when she was three years old. After the morning service was over one Sunday, Hannah tugged on her mom’s skirt and asked, “Mommy, why do some people in church have lights over their heads and some don’t?

Let’s face it: about the only thing that can provide any comfort when we lose a loved one is knowing we will see that person again.

There are things God allows to happen because he knows the outcome is going to be greater than anything we could ever do on our own.

If we put God front and center in our lives, if we give him more attention throughout each and every day, we may just find that the challenging times, when they come, are a little less challenging.

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