We determine how much influence we’ll have, when we decide how available we’ll be.
BOB GOFFBut 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.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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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.
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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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The way we treat people we disagree with most is a report card on what we’ve learned about love.
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The way we love people we disagree with is the best evidence of what we really believe.
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God delights in answering our impossible prayers.
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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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God finds us in the holes we dig for ourselves. We see failures; He sees foundations.
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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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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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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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The most beautiful scenery in the world is when our friends come into view.
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Love doesn’t try to be efficient; when it is most extravagant, it is least wasted.
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Most people need love and acceptance a lot more than they need advice.
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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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The battle for our hearts is fought on the pages of our calendar.
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