We keep asking for answers; God keeps sending us people.
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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The most beautiful scenery in the world is when our friends come into view.
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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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I learned that fully loving and fully living are not only synonymous but the kind of life that Jesus invited us to be part of.
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We keep telling God our opinions; He keeps asking us about our hearts. We’ll grow the most when we have the right conversations.
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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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The way we love people we disagree with is the best evidence of what we really believe.
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We’re part of God’s much bigger plan for the whole world. Just like God’s Son arrived here, so did you. And after Jesus arrived, God whispered to all of humanity “It’s your move.
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That’s what love does – it pursues blindly, unflinchingly, and without end. When you go after something you love, you’ll do anything it takes to get it, even if it costs everything.
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I used to think I could learn about Jesus by studying Him, but now I know Jesus doesn’t want stalkers.
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I think of the church as this bride of Christ, who is incredibly capable of doing amazing things. And so where we see injustice, we come, not with fists clenched but with palms up.
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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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Words people say not only have a shelf life but have the ability to shape life.
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God doesn’t break things so He can fix them; He fixes broken things so He can use them.
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The way we deal with uncertainty says a lot about whether Jesus is ahead of us leading, or behind us just carrying our stuff.
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When 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.
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