Bob Goff Quotes
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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 hope the things I did would work; now I hope they last.
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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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Do one thing that's heroic for you today - big or small - and fear won't define you anymore.
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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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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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Live your life like you're exactly who Jesus thinks you are.
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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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Live a life of conspicuous grace and courageous resolve.
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When you trust someone, you don't need to know everything.
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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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Living a life fully engaged and 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. Their dreams become one of those "we'll go there next time" deferrals. The sad thing is, for many there is no "next time" because passing on the chance to cross over is an overall attitude toward life rather than a single decision.
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Here's our job as believers, love everybody ALWAYS!
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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'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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Sometimes the things we think are the impediments are actually the path.
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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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We'll become whoever we trust the most says we are.
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The words we speak to each other should leave stretch marks, not bruises. Love is always picky about what it says.
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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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Stand up like a mountain; have faith like a rock; love like an avalanche.
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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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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.