Bob Goff Quotes
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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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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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I think of the church as this bride of Christ, who is incredibly capable of doing amazing things. And so where we see injustice, we come, not with fists clenched but with palms up.
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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.
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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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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 used to hope the things I did would work; now I hope they last.
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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've learned that God sometimes allows us to find ourselves in a place where we want something so bad that we can't see past it. Sometimes we can't even see God because of it. When we want something that bad, it's easy to mistake what we truly need for the thing we really want. When this sort of thing happens, and it seems to happen to everyone, I've found it's because what God has for us is obscured from view, just around another bend in the road.
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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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Sometimes the things we think are the impediments are actually the path.
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What I've learned the more time I've spent following Jesus is that God delights in answering our impossible prayers.
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I used to think I could learn about Jesus by studying Him, but now I know Jesus doesn't want stalkers.
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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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When you trust someone, you don't need to know everything.
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Live a life of conspicuous grace and courageous resolve.
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That's all the information I need to know about the church, Jesus picked it. And so instead of me telling the church how she would really look better if she had this in her hair, or that over there, I think I'm just respecting the Groom's pick.
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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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Stand up like a mountain; have faith like a rock; love like an avalanche.
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Something happens when you feel ownership. You no longer act like a spectator or consumer, because you're an owner. Faith is at its best when it's that way too. It's best lived when it's owned.
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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.
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Insecurity wants us to keep track of our failures; grace doesn't even write them down.
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Grace means we don't need to airbrush our lives to make them look like they're working.
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It will be more love, not more information, that will change our hearts.