Todd Burpo Quotes
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.
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And our dreams are who we are.
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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I will say that the food in both Japan and Italy was immaculate. I don't remember having bad food in either country.
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Sharks are being driven to extinction because people want to eat their fins and their flesh.
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You don't make houses cheaper by making them more expensive to build.
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I'm from a very small village in the middle of nowhere, four hours by airplane from Moscow. Yemanzhelinsk - you wouldn't find it on the map. Don't even try it. It's super, super tiny.
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Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rather pious.
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I generally travel with my laptop, a couple of great books, and my iPod.
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Who wouldn't like to give up normal life? I mean, normal life, you know, is the second worst thing to death itself. I think normality is something that makes everything very static, and I try to make my days, my daily routines, as uneven and rich as possible.
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I will say go into the world and try to find good people that feel genuine affection and love for you, and disregard everything else about their background.
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I always had a curiosity about Texas. I had a curiosity about small-town life, although, granted, Odessa's not a tiny town.
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The white man's dollar is his god, and to stop this will be to stop outrages in many localities.
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I mean if I'm in the middle of a field with my keyboard and some headphones and I feel inspired to write something, I'll just write something really beautiful and mellow.
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It doesn't much concern me if Tiger plays in the tournament or no.
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I'm sure at some point I will get back into coaching, but right now I need to focus completely on my kids.
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When I was the NIH director, I often expressed envy of institute directors: they had the money and ran the scientific programmes.
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I am convinced that the world-wide protests during the Rivonia trial saved Mandela and his fellow-accused from a death sentence. But in South Africa, a life sentence means imprisonment until death - or until the defeat of the government which holds these men prisoner.
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Whoso taketh in hand to govern a multitude, either by way of liberty or principality, and cannot assure himself of those persons that are enemies to that enterprise, doth frame a state of short perseverance.
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You're called a genius by people, and then your whole life you become the part.
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The place was part museum, part library, and part archive; I loved it at first sight...and smell, for here there were thousands of printed books, many very old indeed, and nothing smells quite as wonderful as old books.
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The core of the Jesus message is what has made him relevant for twenty centuries.
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The surface of the Earth itself is an immense loom upon which the sun weaves the fabric of existence.
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Overall, we had about 50 meetings where the brothers would say that I couldn't do any solo records, I couldn't write for other people, I couldn't do this and I couldn't do that. These guys were trying to nail my feet to the ground.
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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.
