Bob Goff Quotes
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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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Live your life like you're exactly who Jesus thinks you are.
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God made beauty so we'd know how He felt about us.
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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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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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That's one of those things about love. It always assumes it can find a way to express itself.
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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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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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Insecurity wants us to keep track of our failures; grace doesn't even write them down.
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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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I used to hope the things I did would work; now I hope they last.
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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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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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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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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 used to think that real love involved falling for someone; but now I think it usually involves standing for someone.
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God keeps telling us to be not afraid, to go big.
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We won't figure out what's sacred in life if we settle for what's safe.
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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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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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Love one another. We don't need more instructions; we need more examples.
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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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Be ambitious about things that last.