Todd Burpo Quotes

Nature is the art of God.

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.

For me, I've always believed that there was a God. I've always believed that God created the heavens and earth - so, for me it's not a huge leap from there to intelligent design.

God is an awesome mathematician and physicist.

Reason, in fact, is a thing of God, inasmuch as there is nothing which God the Maker of all has not provided, disposed, ordained by reason.

Nature is God's workshop. The sky is his resume. The universe is his calling card. You want to know who God is? See what he has done.

For the world is not painted, or adorned, but is from the beginning beautiful; and God has not made some beautiful things, but Beauty is the creator of the universe.

This act [creation], as it is for God, must always remain totally inconceivable to man. For we--even our poets and musicians and inventors--never, in the ultimate sense make. We only build. We always have materials to build from. All we can know about the act of creation must be derived from what we can gather about the relation of the creatures to their Creator

The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

I revere the fullness of His Scripture, in which He manifests to me both the Creator and creation. In the gospel moreover, I discover a Minister and Witness of the Creator, even His Word.

Those who know God know that it is quite a mistake to suppose that there are only five senses.

Here's what I like about God: Trees are crooked, mountains are lumpy, a lot of his creatures are funny looking, and he made it all anyway. He didn't let the aardvark convince him he had no business designing creatures. He didn't make a puffer fish and get discouraged, no, the maker made things - and still does.

God sees the secret springs of human action, and knows the hearts of all living.

The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator. Science brings men nearer to God.

And you poor creatures--who conjured you out of the clay? Is God in show business, too?

I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered, I am not He, but He made me.

The laws of physics are the canvas God laid down on which to paint his masterpiece.

God is not a demiurge [demigod] or a magician, but the Creator who gives being to all entities.

And what marvelous things there are for which to be grateful in God's great Creation!

Nothing can be rightly known, if God be not known; nor is any study well managed, nor to any great purpose, if God is not studied. We know little of the creature, till we know it as it stands related to the Creator.

God is not the Creator, He is creativity. Creativity is His being. He has always been creating.

The Universe, wrought for us by a supremely good and orderly Creator.

When we read about Creation in Genesis, we run the risk of imagining God was a magician, with a magic wand able to do everything. But that is not so. God is not a demiurge [demigod] or a magician, but the Creator who gives being to all entities. Evolution in nature is not opposed to the notion of Creation, because evolution presupposes the creation of beings that evolve.

Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God Our wisdom, in so far as it ought to be deemed true and solid Wisdom, consists almost entirely of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves. But as these are connected together by many ties, it is not easy to determine which of the two precedes and gives birth to the other.

To know and experience what God can do, we must first realize and acknowledge what we cannot do. We must get our eyes off of ourselves and our limited ability, and totally onto Him and His infinite power.