Bob Goff Quotes
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Too often we are posers. Don't be afraid. Be you. Live a life worthy of the calling YOU'VE received.
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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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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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Do one thing that's heroic for you today - big or small - and fear won't define you anymore.
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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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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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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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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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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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Insecurity wants us to keep track of our failures; grace doesn't even write them down.
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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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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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Grace means we don't need to airbrush our lives to make them look like they're working.
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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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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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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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It will be more love, not more information, that will change our hearts.
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Stand up like a mountain; have faith like a rock; love like an avalanche.
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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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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.