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.
BOB GOFFNo book is a chapter, no chapter tells the whole story, no mistake defines who we are. Hope makes our lives page turners.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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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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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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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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God doesn’t break things so He can fix them; He fixes broken things so He can use them.
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We won’t be distracted by comparison if we’re captivated with purpose.
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Love God. Love people. And do stuff. That’s my punch list everyday.
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I’m all for getting together with men and women in small groups around Scripture and letting it just wash over us, but for me, I’ve been meeting with the same ten guys for like 15 years now, but we don’t have a Bible study every Friday, we have a Bible doing.
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Live a life of conspicuous grace and courageous resolve.
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When it feels like we need to choose between being right and being humble- pick both
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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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See people for who they’re becoming. Not who they were.
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Day turned to night, His friends scattered and death thought it had won. But heaven just started counting to three
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Do less of what you’re terrible at and more of what you’re good at. I don’t know if that sounds too simple, but it’s been working for me.
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We need to make our faith our very own love story.
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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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