I used to think God guided us by opening and closing doors, but now I know sometimes God wants us to kick some doors down.
BOB GOFFWhat distracts us will begin to define us. We don’t need to swing at every pitch.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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Nobody turns down an invitation to the White House, but I’ve seen plenty of people turn down an invitation to fully live.
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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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…we need to stop plotting the course and instead just land the plane on our plans to make a difference by getting to the “do” part of faith.
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Living a life of following Christ means constant interruptions.
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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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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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The way we deal with uncertainty says a lot about whether Jesus is ahead of us leading, or behind us just carrying our stuff.
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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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We spend a lot of energy remembering failures God spent a lot of love saying we could forget.
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Love doesn’t try to be efficient; when it is most extravagant, it is least wasted.
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I never know what all of the steps are but I do know the next step.
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When you love people like Jesus, you get messy. But messy looks good on you!
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Here’s our job as believers, love everybody ALWAYS!
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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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I know that sounds so circular, but for you, what you were made to do, is different than what I was made to do.
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