Bob Goff Quotes
Small streams don't plan to be mighty rivers. We just move in a direction; God decides what He'll have us become.
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I love people with strong convictions, because we are living in a very PC world. You can't crack a joke without it being in the headlines.
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I buried Joel on our 48th anniversary. I had been with her since I was 16.
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What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
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I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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May we remain connected in love. We are one.
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Philosophy and theology have so much to tell us about God, but people today want to experience God. There is a difference between eating dinner and merely reading the menu.
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I'm a huge sushi fan. I have it every couple of days.
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Well, I think that you're looking at it from a theological perspective or a scientific perspective. Answering that question with specificity is above my pay grade. But let me just speak more generally about the issue of abortion, because this is something that obviously the country wrestles with.
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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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'You drink wine, you have foreskins. These things have been observed.'
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Politics, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
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I know. I know that I shall never again meet anything or anybody who will inspire me with passion. You know, it's quite a job starting to love somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment, in the very beginning, when you have to jump across a precipice: if you think about it you don't do it. I know I'll never jump again.
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People want to be empowered to the point where they can thwart their enemies physically.
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I was always admiring people who seemed to conduct themselves with ease in the world. Maybe that's a great gift to give your kids if you can do that. Because they can move through the world without neurosis, this anxiety about everything, which our own parents gave us.
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Just really be yourself, and if being yourself means you play two snare drums and nothing else, then play two snare drums and nothing else! Really figure out who you are and how you want your drums to feel because it's a very emotional instrument.
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I've probably had my best time acting - or not acting, or trying to not act - on things like 'The Low Down' or 'Treacle Jr.' I'm happiest doing things like that. Not just because they're lead roles, but because there's more freedom in them.
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You can undo a lot of things. If you're not happy, you can become happy. Happiness is a choice. That's the thing I really feel.
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If God were to appear in my room, obviously I would be in awe, but I don't think I would be humble. I might cry, but I think he would dig me like crazy.
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Beware of bartering the Word of God for a more suitable conception of your own.
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We had forgotten the art of using silence to convey emotions in our films and that's what you seem to have mastered. You've used silence to great advantage in the film. It's brilliant.
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The power of thought,-the magic of the mind!
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Small streams don't plan to be mighty rivers. We just move in a direction; God decides what He'll have us become.
