The way we love people we disagree with is the best evidence of what we really believe.
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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I used to hope the things I did would work; now I hope they last.
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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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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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I don’t think anyone aims to be typical, really. Most people even vow to themselves some time in high school or college not to be typical. But still, they just kind of loop back to it somehow.
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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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Loving people the way Jesus did, means living a life of constant interruptions. Bring it.
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Being engaged is a way of doing life, a way of living and loving. It’s about going to extremes and expressing the bright hope that life offers us.
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I don’t think success is what we’ve made of ourselves; I think it’s what we’ve made of others.
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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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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.
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One thing I do is (and I realize this might sound nuts), every month or so, I try to take like an Etch-a-sketch [so to speak], and I clear my faith. I go to zero, clear the deck. And I start adding things back to my faith, one at a time.
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Sometimes we ask God for help and God gives us hope, not because it’s different, but because it’s the same.
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Grace means we don’t need to airbrush our lives to make them look like they’re working.
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Stop telling people how far they have left to go. Instead tell them how far they’ve come.
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I don’t know every step I’m supposed to take. I think Jesus just wants me to take the next step.
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