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.
BOB GOFFInsecurity wants us to keep track of our failures; grace doesn’t even write them down.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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For those who resonate with formulas, here it is: add your whole life, your loves, your passions, and your interests together with what God said He wants us to be about, and that’s your answer.
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People who want to manipulate you will fear your joy, because it’s not easily controlled.
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I know that sounds so circular, but for you, what you were made to do, is different than what I was made to do.
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God made beauty so we’d know how He felt about us.
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We might be known for what we believed, but we’re certain to be remembered for what we did about it.
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When love is a theory, it’s safe, it’s free of risk. But love in the brain changes nothing.
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No book is a chapter, no chapter tells the whole story, no mistake defines who we are. Hope makes our lives page turners.
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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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We keep asking for answers; God keeps sending us people.
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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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It’s easy to confuse a lot of activity with a purposeful life. Do what lasts; let the rest fall away.
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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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It has always seemed to me that broken things, just like broken people, get used more; it’s probably because God has more pieces to work with.
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Most people need love and acceptance a lot more than they need advice.
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Jesus lets us be real with our life and our faith.
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