Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back

by Todd Burpo

But maybe there was still something I could do to redeem myself. That hope was probably the only thing that kept me from falling apart.

Hope

It is the opposite of ignorance—it is intellectual honesty: to be willing to accept reality and to call things what they are even when it is hard.

How to get into heaven

“You might as well tell God what you think,” I said. “He already knows it anyway.”

god knows

Jesus clearly viewed children as precious—and that if he loved kids enough to say that adults should be more like them, we should spend more time loving them too.

Love children like Jesus

Then Jesus told him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”1

Blessed be those who've not seen but still believe