If you’re following God and haven’t lost much of what you’ve been holding on to – follow a little closer.
BOB GOFFFear will give us a reason not to try; hope will give us a reason not to listen.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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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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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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God finds us in the holes we dig for ourselves. We see failures; He sees foundations.
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When it feels like we need to choose between being right and being humble- pick both
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You can quit anything on a Thursday.
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It will be the people with the greatest love, not the most information, who will influence us to change.
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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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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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Words people say not only have a shelf life but have the ability to shape life.
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If you get a no from somebody, don’t say, ‘I’m going to take this as some big cosmic signal.’ No, you just got a no, deal with it. Just go to the next step.
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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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Love doesn’t try to be efficient; when it is most extravagant, it is least wasted.
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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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God’s never as nervous about our future, or as concerned about our past, as we are.
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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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