Next to grace, I bet God thinks making us need each other was one of His best ideas.
BOB GOFFI used to want to fix people, but now I just want to be with them.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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We’re all amateurs when it comes to love. Don’t be too hard on each other.
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That’s one of those things about love. It always assumes it can find a way to express itself.
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I don’t think anyone aims to be typical, really. Most people even vow to themselves some time in high school or college not to be typical. But still, they just kind of loop back to it somehow.
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Being engaged is a way of doing life, a way of living and loving. It’s about going to extremes and expressing the bright hope that life offers us.
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Love finds us where we are, not where we were.
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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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Figure out what fuels your joy, then do lots of that
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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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God asks what it is He’s made us to love, what it is that captures our attention, what feeds that deep indescribable need of our souls to experience the richness of the world He made. And then, leaning over us, He whispers, “Let’s go do that together.
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We keep asking for answers; God keeps sending us people.
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Like the circular rails of a train at an amusement park, the scripts we know offer a brand of security, of predictability, of safety for us. But the problem is, they only take us where we’ve already been.
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When you trust someone, you don’t need to know everything.
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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 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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For those who resonate with formulas, here it is: add your whole life, your loves, your passions, and your interests together with what God said He wants us to be about, and that’s your answer.
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