Bob Goff Quotes
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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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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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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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Sometimes the things we think are the impediments are actually the path.
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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 all want to have a place where we can dream and escape anything that wraps steel bands around our imagination and creativity.
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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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When you trust someone, you don't need to know everything.
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Live your life like you're exactly who Jesus thinks you are.
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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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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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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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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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Grace means we don't need to airbrush our lives to make them look like they're working.
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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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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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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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Do one thing that's heroic for you today - big or small - and fear won't define you anymore.
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God keeps telling us to be not afraid, to go big.
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Most of our decisions are driven by either love or fear. Figure out who's doing the talking, then decide what you'll do.
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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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I used to think that real love involved falling for someone; but now I think it usually involves standing for someone.
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Stand up like a mountain; have faith like a rock; love like an avalanche.