Bob Goff Quotes
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We're all amateurs when it comes to love. Don't be too hard on each other.
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Grace draws a circle around everyone and says they're in.
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I think God’s hope and plan for us is pretty simple to figure out. For those who resonate with formulas, here it is: add your whole life, your loves, your passions, and your interests together with what God said He wants us to be about, and that’s your answer.
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I used to think JESUS motivated us with ultimatums, but now I know He pursues us in LOVE.
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What Jesus said we could do is leave typical behind.
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The most beautiful scenery in the world is when our friends come into view.
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Whatever you're aiming for, God's better.
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Nobody turns down an invitation to the White House, but I’ve seen plenty of people turn down an invitation to fully live.
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Do one heroic thing today; big or small doesn't matter because it defines who you are and what you really believe.
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Grace works that way. It's a kind word from a gentle person with an impossible prayer. It's a force sometimes transmitted best hand to hand in a dark place.
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Living a life fully engaged in full of whimsy and the kind of things that love does is something most people plan to do, but along the way they just kind of forget.
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Fear will give us a reason not to try; hope will give us a reason not to listen.
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Instead of closing our eyes and bowing our heads, sometimes God wants us to keep our eyes open for people in need, do something about it, and bow our whole lives to Him instead.
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Every time we see people as ordinary, we turn the wine back into water.
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God pursues us into whatever dark place we've landed and behind whatever locked door holds us in. He holds our unwashed and dirty hands and models how He wants us to pursue each other And He says to ordinary people like me and you that instead of closing our eyes and bowing our heads, sometimes God wants us to keep our eyes open for people in need, do something about it, and bow our whole lives to Him instead.
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When you identify with an organization and you want to do stuff but you get this inexplicable 'no' - a lot of people get off the end and think, Well, God must have said no to me. No! The organization just said no to you. Find what it is that you were made to do and get on it! Go do what you were made to do.
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Most people need love and acceptance a lot more than they need advice.
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I used to think being loved was the greatest thing to think about, but now I know love is never satisfied just thinking about it.
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Sometimes we ask God for help and God gives us hope, not because it's different, but because it's the same.
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God's big plan: go love everybody, always!
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Go be the next humblest version of yourself.
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One thing I do is (and I realize this might sound nuts), every month or so, I try to take like an Etch-a-sketch so to speak, and I clear my faith. I go to zero, clear the deck. And I start adding things back to my faith, one at a time. What would be the first thing I'd add back? Jesus. It sounds a little bit like a Sunday school answer, but that's what I do. Then what's the next thing? And I'd say, well, loving people. And then the next.
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Our failures can leave behind pavement or potholes. Our ability to receive grace determines which it will be.
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It has always seemed to me that broken things, just like broken people, get used more; it's probably because God has more pieces to work with.