Bob Goff Quotes
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Failure is just part of the process, and it's not just okay; it's better than okay. God doesn't want failure to shut us down. God didn't make it a three-strikes-and-you're-out sort of thing. It's more about how God helps us dust ourselves off so we can swing for the fences again. And all of this without keeping a meticulous record of our screw-ups.
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The shallow end of hope is usually the deep end of grace.
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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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Selfless love is always costly; fear can't afford it, pride doesn't understand it and friends never forget it.
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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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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 won't be like Jesus if it's more important to us to be like each other. God doesn't compare what he creates.
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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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We spend a lot of energy remembering failures God spent a lot of love saying we could forget.
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We keep telling God our opinions; He keeps asking us about our hearts. We'll grow the most when we have the right conversations.
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I used to want to fix people, but now I just want to be with them.
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God keeps telling us to be not afraid, to go big.
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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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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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The battle for our hearts is fought on the pages of our calendar.
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Don't let other people decide who you are.
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It will be more love, not more information, that will change our hearts.
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God's never as nervous about our future, or as concerned about our past, as we are.
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People who take huge risks aren't afraid to fail. In fact, they love to fail. It's because failing means they found the edge.
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I once heard somebody say that God had closed a door on an opportunity they had hoped for. But I've always wondered if when we want to do something that we know is right and good, God places that desire deep in our hearts because He wants it for us and it honors Him. Maybe there are times when we think a door has been closed and, instead of misinterpreting the circumstances, God wants us to kick it down. Or perhaps just sit outside of it long enough until somebody tells us we can come in.
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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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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 love is a theory, it's safe, it's free of risk. But love in the brain changes nothing.