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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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 draws a circle around everyone and says they're in.
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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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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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What Jesus said we could do is leave typical behind.
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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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Most people need love and acceptance a lot more than they need advice.
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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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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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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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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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Our failures can leave behind pavement or potholes. Our ability to receive grace determines which it will be.
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That's what love does - it pursues blindly, unflinchingly, and without end. When you go after something you love, you'll do anything it takes to get it, even if it costs everything.
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Too often we are posers. Don't be afraid. Be you. Live a life worthy of the calling YOU'VE received.
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Fix your eyes on Jesus; it's ok to stare.
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Whimsy doesn't care if you are the driver or the passenger; all that matters is that you are on your way.
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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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Being engaged is a way of doing life, a way of living and loving. It's about going to extremes and expressing the bright hope that life offers us, a hope that makes us brave and expels darkness with light. That's what I want my life to be all about - full of abandon, whimsy, and in love.
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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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We keep asking for answers; God keeps sending us people.
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Words people say not only have a shelf life but have the ability to shape life.
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We need to make our faith our very own love story.
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Jesus is nuts about kids. He doesn't seem to think much of lawyers which really lands close to home, but He's nuts about kids and loves justice.