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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.
Bob Goff -
There's a difference between a caper and a prank. A prank is like playing Ding-Dong-Ditch, you know, you ring the doorbell and then run and hide in the ditch. That's a prank. It has no shelf life, like reassembling the principal's car up on the roof of the gym. It's cute and everything but there's no shelf-life, and it can actually be kind of destructive. But a caper is different. It's something where everybody has made it in.
Bob Goff
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Words people say not only have a shelf life but have the ability to shape life.
Bob Goff -
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.
Bob Goff -
The teachers I've learned the most from, didn't think they were teaching me; they just thought we were friends.
Bob Goff -
When you are in high school, you don't give much thought to what you can't do. For most people, that gets learned later, and for still fewer, gets unlearned for the rest of life.
Bob Goff -
...love is never stationary.
Bob Goff -
Here's our job as believers, love everybody ALWAYS!
Bob Goff
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We need to make our faith our very own love story.
Bob Goff -
Do one thing that's heroic for you today - big or small - and fear won't define you anymore.
Bob Goff -
Insecurity wants us to keep track of our failures; grace doesn't even write them down.
Bob Goff -
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.
Bob Goff -
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.
Bob Goff -
Small streams don't plan to be mighty rivers. We just move in a direction; God decides what He'll have us become.
Bob Goff
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We can be the light of the world without leaving our high beams on and annoying everybody.
Bob Goff -
Sometimes the things we think are the impediments are actually the path.
Bob Goff -
It will be the people with the greatest love, not the most information, who will influence us to change.
Bob Goff -
I don't know every step I'm supposed to take. I think Jesus just wants me to take the next step.
Bob Goff -
Jesus won't try to speak over the noise in our lives; love whispers so we won't be confused about who's doing the talking.
Bob Goff -
God doesn't break things so He can fix them; He fixes broken things so He can use them.
Bob Goff
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When you trust someone, you don't need to know everything.
Bob Goff -
Grace means we can put the chalk away and stop keeping score!
Bob Goff -
That's one of those things about love. It always assumes it can find a way to express itself.
Bob Goff -
The most beautiful scenery in the world is when our friends come into view.
Bob Goff