Bob Goff Quotes
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If you get a no from somebody, don't say, 'I'm going to take this as some big cosmic signal.' No, you just got a no, deal with it. Just go to the next step.
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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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Love doesn't try to be efficient; when it is most extravagant, it is least wasted.
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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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I used to think JESUS motivated us with ultimatums, but now I know He pursues us in LOVE.
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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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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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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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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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We're all amateurs when it comes to love. Don't be too hard on each other.
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...love is never stationary.
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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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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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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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I'm all for getting together with men and women in small groups around Scripture and letting it just wash over us, but for me, I've been meeting with the same ten guys for like 15 years now, but we don't have a Bible study every Friday, we have a Bible doing.
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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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Our failures can leave behind pavement or potholes. Our ability to receive grace determines which it will be.
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Go be the next humblest version of yourself.
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God's big plan: go love everybody, always!
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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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Words people say not only have a shelf life but have the ability to shape life.
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God never said He'd eliminate all of the chaos from our lives; He just said He'd bring meaning to it.