Bob Goff Quotes
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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 made beauty so we'd know how He felt about us.
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Live your life like you're exactly who Jesus thinks you are.
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Sometimes the things we think are the impediments are actually the path.
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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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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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I used to hope the things I did would work; now I hope they last.
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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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Grace means we don't need to airbrush our lives to make them look like they're working.
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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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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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Insecurity wants us to keep track of our failures; grace doesn't even write them down.
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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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God keeps telling us to be not afraid, to go big.
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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.
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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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Jesus modelled that we don’t need to talk about everything we’ve done. It’s like He’s saying, what if we were just to do awesome, incredible stuff together while we’re here on earth and the fact that only He knew would be enough? If we did, we wouldn’t get confused about who was really making things happen. Not surprisingly, we’d get a lot more done too, because we wouldn’t care who’s looking or taking credit. All that energy would be funnelled into awesomeness.
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I don't know every step I'm supposed to take. I think Jesus just wants me to take the next step.
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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 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.