If you get a no from somebody, don’t say, ‘I’m going to take this as some big cosmic signal.’ No, you just got a no, deal with it. Just go to the next step.
BOB GOFFGrace means we can put the chalk away and stop keeping score!
More Bob Goff Quotes
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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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Stand up like a mountain; have faith like a rock; love like an avalanche
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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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The battle for our hearts is fought on the pages of our calendar.
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The way we love people we disagree with is the best evidence of what we really believe.
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Figure out what fuels your joy, then do lots of that
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He asks if we’ll give up that thing we’re so proud of, that thing we believe causes us to matter in the eyes of the world, and give it up to follow Him. He’s asking us, ‘Will you take what you think defines you, leave it behind, and let Me define who you are instead?’
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Fix your eyes on Jesus; it’s ok to stare.
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No book is a chapter, no chapter tells the whole story, no mistake defines who we are. Hope makes our lives page turners.
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Do less of what you’re terrible at and more of what you’re good at. I don’t know if that sounds too simple, but it’s been working for me.
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Cynicism is fear posing as confidence; joy is hope let off the leash.
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One thing I do is (and I realize this might sound nuts), every month or so, I try to take like an Etch-a-sketch [so to speak], and I clear my faith. I go to zero, clear the deck. And I start adding things back to my faith, one at a time.
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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,
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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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God keeps telling us to be not afraid, to go big
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