I don’t think success is what we’ve made of ourselves; I think it’s what we’ve made of others.
BOB GOFFWe’ll become whoever we trust the most says we are.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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Do what lasts, get around to everything else.
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Jesus is nuts about kids. He doesn’t seem to think much of lawyers which really lands close to home, but He’s nuts about kids and loves justice.
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The real game of Bigger and Better that Jesus is playing with us usually isn’t about money or possessions or even our hopes. It’s about our pride.
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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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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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If you get a no from somebody, don’t say, ‘I’m going to take this as some big cosmic signal.’ No, you just got a no, deal with it. Just go to the next step.
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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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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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You can quit anything on a Thursday.
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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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Courage isn’t the absence of fear, it’s just deciding that fear isn’t calling the shots anymore
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When you trust someone, you don’t need to know everything.
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I used to think God wouldn’t talk to me, but now I know I’m just selective with what I choose to hear.
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God places that desire deep in our hearts because He wants it for us and it honors Him. Maybe there are times when we think a door has been closed and, instead of misinterpreting the circumstances,
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But instead of spending all of our time having Bible studies about what we were made to do, go do stuff and you’ll figure out what you were made to do, because you’ll be great at some things and you’ll be terrible at others.
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