What distracts us will begin to define us. We don’t need to swing at every pitch.
BOB GOFFI’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.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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We determine how much influence we’ll have, when we decide how available we’ll be.
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People who want to manipulate you will fear your joy, because it’s not easily controlled.
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Love doesn’t try to be efficient; when it is most extravagant, it is least wasted.
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But instead of spending all of our time having Bible studies about what we were made to do, go do stuff and you’ll figure out what you were made to do, because you’ll be great at some things and you’ll be terrible at others.
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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.
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It will be more love, not more information, that will change our hearts.
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Living a life fully engaged in 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.
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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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The organization just said no to you. Find what it is that you were made to do and get on it! Go do what you were made to do.
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We plant sod where God wants 2 plant seed. He’s more interested in growing our character than having us look finished.
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God makes confetti out of our titles and accomplishments to celebrate the poor and the humble.
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We get to be God’s plan for the whole world by pointing people toward Him.
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The most beautiful scenery in the world is when our friends come into view.
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God delights in answering our impossible prayers.
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Jesus lets us be real with our life and our faith.
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