Bob Goff Quotes
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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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Love God. Love people. And do stuff. That's my punch list everyday.
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Don't let uncertainty talk you into pursuing a backup plan instead of your purpose.
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Every day God invites us on the same kind of adventure. It's not a trip where He sends us a rigid itinerary, He simply invites us. God asks what it is He's made us to love, what it is that captures our attention, what feeds that deep indescribable need of our souls to experience the richness of the world He made. And then, leaning over us, He whispers, "Let's go do that together.
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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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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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We're all amateurs when it comes to love. Don't be too hard on each other.
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We get to be God's plan for the whole world by pointing people toward Him.
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Grace draws a circle around everyone and says they're in.
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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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Whatever you're aiming for, God's better.
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I know that sounds so circular, but for you, what you were made to do, is different than what I was made to do. But instead of spending all of our time having Bible studies about what we were made to do, go do stuff and you'll figure out what you were made to do, because you'll be great at some things and you'll be terrible at others.
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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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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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What Jesus said we could do is leave typical behind.
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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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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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Go be the next humblest version of yourself.
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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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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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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.
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Most people need love and acceptance a lot more than they need advice.
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I used to be afraid of failing at something that really mattered to me, but now I'm more afraid of succeeding at things that don't matter.
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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.