Fear will give us a reason not to try; hope will give us a reason not to listen.
BOB GOFFWhen 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.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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Live your life like you’re exactly who Jesus thinks you are.
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Courage doesn’t mean we’re not afraid anymore, it just means our actions aren’t controlled by our doubts.
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God keeps telling us to be not afraid, to go big
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I used to think God wouldn’t talk to me, but now I know I’m just selective with what I choose to hear.
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Jesus lets us be real with our life and our faith.
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I once heard somebody say that God had closed a door on an opportunity they had hoped for. But I’ve always wondered if when we want to do something that we know is right and good,
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It has always seemed to me that broken things, just like broken people, get used more; it’s probably because God has more pieces to work with.
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Love doesn’t try to be efficient; when it is most extravagant, it is least wasted.
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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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Insecurity wants us to keep track of our failures; grace doesn’t even write them down.
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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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You can quit anything on a Thursday.
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Next to grace, I bet God thinks making us need each other was one of His best ideas.
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Grace works that way. It’s a kind word from a gentle person with an impossible prayer. It’s a force sometimes transmitted best hand to hand in a dark place.
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Living a life of following Christ means constant interruptions.
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Day turned to night, His friends scattered and death thought it had won. But heaven just started counting to three
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Most of us have all the information we need. What we need is more passion.
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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.
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A hope that makes us brave and expels darkness with light. That’s what I want my life to be all about – full of abandon, whimsy, and in love.
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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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The real game of Bigger and Better that Jesus is playing with us usually isn’t about money or possessions or even our hopes. It’s about our pride.
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Every time we see people as ordinary, we turn the wine back into water.
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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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Jesus won’t try to speak over the noise in our lives; love whispers so we won’t be confused about who’s doing the talking.
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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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We’re all amateurs when it comes to love. Don’t be too hard on each other.
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