Bob Goff Quotes
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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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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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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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What Jesus said we could do is leave typical behind.
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Grace draws a circle around everyone and says they're in.
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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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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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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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The most beautiful scenery in the world is when our friends come into view.
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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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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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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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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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Our failures can leave behind pavement or potholes. Our ability to receive grace determines which it will be.
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Fix your eyes on Jesus; it's ok to stare.
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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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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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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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We keep asking for answers; God keeps sending us people.
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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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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.