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.

Todd Burpo

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• Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.

  

  Daniel De Leon
  • Money
  • Poverty
  • Breeds

• When a politician bends the truth or a CEO breaks a promise, trust takes a beating.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Truth
  • Trust
  • Promise

• A teacher should have a creative mind.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Mind
  • Teacher
  • Creative

• 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.

  

  Ted Danson
  • People
  • Love
  • Guy

• 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.

  

  Faye Wattleton
  • Men
  • Women
  • American

• The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Die
  • End
  • Civilization

• I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • Life
  • Tragic
  • Beginner

• 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.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Trying

• 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.

  

  Ze Frank
  • People
  • Experience
  • Together

• 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.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Age
  • Education
  • Spiritual

• It is guaranteed to put all teeth on edge, including George Washington's, wherever they might be.

  

  Vincent Canby
  • Washington
  • Teeth
  • Edge

• 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.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Real
  • Human
  • Afraid

• Of course I prefer to be with someone, but with the right someone.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Right
  • Someone
  • Course

• Once I am in the square circle, I am in my home.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Home
  • Circle
  • Square

• Ed Balls

  

  Ed Balls

• The Man Penal settlement. Do you know whats happening there? The murders, the starvation, the complete breakdown of law and order.

  

  P. D. James
  • Law

• Can't get up in the morning lately and I'm just sunk in a dream I'm always the ship in the stream

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Up
  • Dream
  • Morning

• 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.

  

  Yehudi Menuhin
  • Patience

• If God had wanted us to be concerned for the plight of the toads, he would have made them cute and furry.

  

  Dave Barry
  • God
  • Cute

• Like Andy Warhol and unlike God Almighty, Larry King does not presume to judge; all celebrities are equal in his eyes, saints and sinners alike sharing the same 'Love Boat' voyage into the dark beyond, a former sitcom star as deserving of pious send-off as Princess Diana.

  

  James Wolcott
  • God
  • Eyes
  • Dark

• I didn't fight this fight for the blacks, the whites or the Spanish, I fought the fight for the people. We're all God's children. I don't see color. I'm not a racist When I look at Gerry Cooney, I just see a man trying to take my head off.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • People
  • God
  • Children

• ...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
  • God
  • Son
  • Comfort