Bob Goff Quotes
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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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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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God doesn't break things so He can fix them; He fixes broken things so He can use them.
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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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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.
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...love is never stationary.
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I know that sounds so circular, but for you, what you were made to do, is different than what I was made to do. But instead of spending all of our time having Bible studies about what we were made to do, go do stuff and you'll figure out what you were made to do, because you'll be great at some things and you'll be terrible at others.
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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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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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We can be the light of the world without leaving our high beams on and annoying everybody.
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Sometimes the things we think are the impediments are actually the path.
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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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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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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.
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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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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.
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God's big plan: go love everybody, always!
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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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Whatever you're aiming for, God's better.
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Insecurity wants us to keep track of our failures; grace doesn't even write them down.
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Do one thing that's heroic for you today - big or small - and fear won't define you anymore.
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Go be the next humblest version of yourself.
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Small streams don't plan to be mighty rivers. We just move in a direction; God decides what He'll have us become.