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We keep asking for answers; God keeps sending us people.

Bob Goff

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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Failing Matter Succeed
Day turned to night, His friends scattered and death thought it had won. But heaven just started counting to three
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Heaven Night Three
God finds us in the holes we dig for ourselves. We see failures; He sees foundations.
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Foundation God Holes Search
What I noticed, though, is almost every time I type the word love, it gets changed to the word live…
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Change Jesus Kind Type
Whimsy doesn’t care if you are the driver or the passenger; all that matters is that you are on your way.
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Matter Way Whimsy
God doesn’t break things so He can fix them; He fixes broken things so He can use them.
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Christian Faith God
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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Kind Language Sacrifice Sign
Cynicism is fear posing as confidence; joy is hope let off the leash.
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Cynicism Joy Posing
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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Enough God Perhaps Somebody Tells Wants
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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Jesus Month Realize School Zero
Fear will give us a reason not to try; hope will give us a reason not to listen.
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Giving Reason Trying
The battle for our hearts is fought on the pages of our calendar.
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Battle Calendars Heart
We need to make our faith our very own love story.
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Love Needs Stories Story
I used to want to fix people, but now I just want to be with them.
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People Used Want
The teachers I’ve learned the most from, didn’t think they were teaching me; they just thought we were friends.
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Teacher Teaching Thinking
It’s easy to confuse a lot of activity with a purposeful life. Do what lasts; let the rest fall away.
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Easy Fall Lasts

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