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 GOFFLove finds us where we are, not where we were.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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Selfless love is always costly; fear can’t afford it, pride doesn’t understand it and friends never forget it.
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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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Love finds us where we are, not where we were.
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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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We spend a lot of energy remembering failures God spent a lot of love saying we could forget.
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We determine how much influence we’ll have, when we decide how available we’ll be.
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Most people need love and acceptance a lot more than they need advice.
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Surround yourself with prompts that remind you who Jesus is.
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…we need to stop plotting the course and instead just land the plane on our plans to make a difference by getting to the “do” part of faith.
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When you love people like Jesus, you get messy. But messy looks good on you!
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God places that desire deep in our hearts because He wants it for us and it honors Him. Maybe there are times when we think a door has been closed and, instead of misinterpreting the circumstances,
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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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Live your life like you’re exactly who Jesus thinks you are.
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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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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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