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God made beauty so we’d know how He felt about us.

Bob Goff

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.
BOB GOFF

Attitude Dream Love Something
I know that sounds so circular, but for you, what you were made to do, is different than what I was made to do.
BOB GOFF

Different Sound Stuff
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.
BOB GOFF

Fighting Guy Running Somewhere
People who want to manipulate you will fear your joy, because it’s not easily controlled.
BOB GOFF

Joy People Want
That’s one of the things about love. It doesn’t recognize boundaries and never obeys the rules we try to give it.
BOB GOFF

Boundaries Giving Trying
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.
BOB GOFF

Church Fists Thinking
The shallow end of hope is usually the deep end of grace.
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Ends Grace Shallow
Small streams don’t plan to be mighty rivers. We just move in a direction; God decides what He’ll have us become.
BOB GOFF

Moving Rivers Streams
We won’t figure out what’s sacred in life if we settle for what’s safe.
BOB GOFF

Sacred Safe Settling
Jesus never told His friends to play it safe.
BOB GOFF

Friends Jesus Play Safe
When you are in high school, you don’t give much thought to what you can’t do. For most people, that gets learned later, and for still fewer, gets unlearned for the rest of life.
BOB GOFF

Giving Life Rest School
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.
BOB GOFF

Kind Language Sacrifice Sign
Words people say not only have a shelf life but have the ability to shape life.
BOB GOFF

People Shapes Shelves
See people for who they’re becoming. Not who they were.
BOB GOFF

Becoming Life People See
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.
BOB GOFF

Answer Loving People School Sunday
The way we treat people we disagree with most is a report card on what we’ve learned about love.
BOB GOFF

Cards People Way

God made beauty so we’d know how He felt about us.

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