Todd Burpo Quotes
...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.
Quotes to Explore
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Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.
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When a politician bends the truth or a CEO breaks a promise, trust takes a beating.
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A teacher should have a creative mind.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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Many African-American men are incarcerated. And so African-American women do carry an enormous burden. And traditionally have carried a greater burden than perhaps their white counterparts.
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
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I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera.
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I've learned that I get blocked when my subconscious mind is telling me that I've taken the work in a wrong direction, and that once I start listening to what my subconscious is trying to tell me, I can work out the problem and get moving again.
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Video has become much more social, and as a result, there are many opportunities to use video as a way to connect people, to give them opportunities to play and participate, to make things together and have a shared social experience. I think we are just at the beginning of really exploring what social video is and what we can make of it.
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I think you can't really escape any kind of spiritual education as a child, whether it's New Age or Judaism or Buddhism or whatever it is. You can't escape it, even if you completely disagree with it, you still have it as a foundation that you base things off of.
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It is guaranteed to put all teeth on edge, including George Washington's, wherever they might be.
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I'm not afraid of werewolves or vampires or haunted hotels, I'm afraid of what real human beings to do other real human beings.
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Of course I prefer to be with someone, but with the right someone.
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Once I am in the square circle, I am in my home.
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Ed Balls
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The Man Penal settlement. Do you know whats happening there? The murders, the starvation, the complete breakdown of law and order.
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Can't get up in the morning lately and I'm just sunk in a dream I'm always the ship in the stream
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To be an outstanding musician, you have to be very attentive to the smallest detail and willing to have infinite patience in the pursuit of your ideal.
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Nothing fundamental separates the course of human history from the course of physical history.
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It is not the thing on which we spend the most time that moulds us, but the thing that exerts the greatest power. Five minutes with God and His Word is worth more than all the rest of the day.
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The story of 'A Dog's Purpose' flowed into me a set piece. The entire book was just there, as if I were connected to a streaming service, a novel wholly formed of character and plot. This has never happened to me before or since. I prayed for help and I got it. A gift.
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The present is a powerful deity.
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Without work, so much of one's identity just evaporates.
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...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.
