Bob Goff Quotes
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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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God doesn't break things so He can fix them; He fixes broken things so He can use them.
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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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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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I don't think anyone aims to be typical, really. Most people even vow to themselves some time in high school or college not to be typical. But still, they just kind of loop back to it somehow. Like the circular rails of a train at an amusement park, the scripts we know offer a brand of security, of predictability, of safety for us. But the problem is, they only take us where we've already been. They loop us back to places where everyone can easily go, not necessarily where we were made to go. Living a different kind of life takes some guts and grit and a new way of seeing things.
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See people for who they're becoming. Not who they were.
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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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Most people need love and acceptance a lot more than they need advice.
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Words people say not only have a shelf life but have the ability to shape life.
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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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Fix your eyes on Jesus; it's ok to stare.
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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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We can be the light of the world without leaving our high beams on and annoying everybody.
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You don't want to pick a fight with just the guy at the deli, you want to pick a fight somewhere in the world and just run towards it. Run because the fight is going to go on without you if you miss it.
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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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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 never said He'd eliminate all of the chaos from our lives; He just said He'd bring meaning to it.
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I learned that faith isn’t about knowing all of the right stuff or obeying a list of rules. It’s something more, something more costly because it involves being present and making a sacrifice.
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Most of us have all the information we need. What we need is more passion.
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That's one of those things about love. It always assumes it can find a way to express itself.
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It will be the people with the greatest love, not the most information, who will influence us to change.
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We plant sod where God wants 2 plant seed. He's more interested in growing our character than having us look finished.
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When we love people but don't make it about us, we're exchanging currency we can use for a while for currency we can use forever.
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But the kind of love that God created and demonstrated is a costly one because it involves sacrifice and presence. It's a love that operates more like a sign language than being spoken outright.