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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.

Bob Goff

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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Different Sound Stuff
Loving people the way Jesus did, means living a life of constant interruptions. Bring it.
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Jesus Mean People
Not surprisingly, we’d get a lot more done too, because we wouldn’t care who’s looking or taking credit. All that energy would be funnelled into awesomeness.
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Awesomeness Everyone Somehow Surprise
We’re part of God’s much bigger plan for the whole world. Just like God’s Son arrived here, so did you. And after Jesus arrived, God whispered to all of humanity “It’s your move.
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Arrive Jesus Moving Son
When you trust someone, you don’t need to know everything.
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Knows Needs Something Trust
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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Actual Cute Destructive Everything Prank Principle
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
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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Compare Important Jesus
That’s one of the things about love. It doesn’t recognize boundaries and never obeys the rules we try to give it.
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Boundaries Giving Trying
Something happens when you feel ownership. You no longer act like a spectator or consumer, because you’re an owner. Faith is at its best when it’s that way too. It’s best lived when it’s owned.
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Faith Feels Ownership Way
You can quit anything on a Thursday.
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Quit Quitting Thursday
See people for who they’re becoming. Not who they were.
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Becoming Life People See
The world will figure out what we really believe, by watching what we actually do.
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Believe Figures World
Small streams don’t plan to be mighty rivers. We just move in a direction; God decides what He’ll have us become.
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Moving Rivers Streams
We’re all amateurs when it comes to love. Don’t be too hard on each other.
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Amateurs Hard Other
We won’t be distracted by comparison if we’re captivated with purpose.
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Captivated Distracted Purpose

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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