We all want to have a place where we can dream and escape anything that wraps steel bands around our imagination and creativity.
BOB GOFFLove is never stationary.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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You don’t need a plan; you just need to be present.
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They loop us back to places where everyone can easily go, not necessarily where we were made to go. Living a different kind of life takes some guts and grit and a new way of seeing things.
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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.
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Don’t let not knowing how it’ll end keep you from beginning. Uncertainty chases us out into the open where God is waiting.
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But the kind of love that God created and demonstrated is a costly one because it involves sacrifice and presence. It’s a love that operates more like a sign language than being spoken outright.
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God doesn’t break things so He can fix them; He fixes broken things so He can use them.
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Love has the kind of power criticism only wishes it had.
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Surround yourself with prompts that remind you who Jesus is.
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If you’re following God and haven’t lost much of what you’ve been holding on to – follow a little closer.
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What I noticed, though, is almost every time I type the word love, it gets changed to the word live…
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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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Love God. Love people. And do stuff. That’s my punch list everyday.
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The most beautiful scenery in the world is when our friends come into view.
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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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But instead of spending all of our time having Bible studies about what we were made to do, go do stuff and you’ll figure out what you were made to do, because you’ll be great at some things and you’ll be terrible at others.
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Most people need love and acceptance a lot more than they need advice.
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Love God, love your neighbors, and do stuff!
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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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You don’t want to pick a fight with just the guy at the deli, [you want to] pick a fight somewhere in the world and just run towards it. Run because the fight is going to go on without you if you miss it.
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Love like there’s no tomorrow; live like there’s no yesterday. We’re forgiven; now go love people like we believe it
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We can be the light of the world without leaving our high beams on and annoying everybody.
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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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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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What would be the first thing I’d add back? Jesus. It sounds a little bit like a Sunday school answer, but that’s what I do. Then what’s the next thing? And I’d say, well, loving people. And then the next.
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I used to be afraid of failing at something that really mattered to me, but now I’m more afraid of succeeding at things that don’t matter.
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Stop doing what you’re able to do and figure out what you were made to do – then do lots of that.
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