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.
BOB GOFFThe shallow end of hope is usually the deep end of grace.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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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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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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Every day God invites us on the same kind of adventure. It’s not a trip where He sends us a rigid itinerary, He simply invites us.
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That’s one of those things about love. It always assumes it can find a way to express itself.
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If you’re following God and haven’t lost much of what you’ve been holding on to – follow a little closer.
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God wants us to kick it down. Or perhaps just sit outside of it long enough until somebody tells us we can come in.
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Do what lasts, get around to everything else.
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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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I used to think God guided us by opening and closing doors, but now I know sometimes God wants us to kick some doors down.
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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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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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The battle for our hearts is fought on the pages of our calendar.
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You don’t want to pick a fight with just the guy at the deli, [you want to] pick a fight somewhere in the world and just run towards it. Run because the fight is going to go on without you if you miss it.
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I used to want to fix people, but now I just want to be with them.
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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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