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.
BOB GOFFStop doing what you’re able to do and figure out what you were made to do – then do lots of that.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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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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But 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.
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I don’t think success is what we’ve made of ourselves; I think it’s what we’ve made of others.
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Whatever you’re aiming for, God’s better.
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Whimsy doesn’t care if you are the driver or the passenger; all that matters is that you are on your way.
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Grace draws a circle around everyone and says they’re in.
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Grace means we can put the chalk away and stop keeping score!
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Do what lasts, get around to everything else.
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Next to grace, I bet God thinks making us need each other was one of His best ideas.
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If we only do what we’re familiar with, we might miss what we’ve been made for.
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Not surprisingly, we’d get a lot more done too, because we wouldn’t care who’s looking or taking credit. All that energy would be funnelled into awesomeness.
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God finds us in the holes we dig for ourselves. We see failures; He sees foundations.
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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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When it feels like we need to choose between being right and being humble- pick both
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He asks if we’ll give up that thing we’re so proud of, that thing we believe causes us to matter in the eyes of the world, and give it up to follow Him. He’s asking us, ‘Will you take what you think defines you, leave it behind, and let Me define who you are instead?’
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I once heard somebody say that God had closed a door on an opportunity they had hoped for. But I’ve always wondered if when we want to do something that we know is right and good,
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We determine how much influence we’ll have, when we decide how available we’ll be.
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I used to think you had to be special for God to use you, but now I know you simply need to say yes.
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Great love leaves little doubt.
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Being engaged is a way of doing life, a way of living and loving. It’s about going to extremes and expressing the bright hope that life offers us.
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God asks what it is He’s made us to love, what it is that captures our attention, what feeds that deep indescribable need of our souls to experience the richness of the world He made. And then, leaning over us, He whispers, “Let’s go do that together.
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Don’t let not knowing how it’ll end keep you from beginning. Uncertainty chases us out into the open where God is waiting.
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Loving people the way Jesus did, means living a life of constant interruptions. Bring it.
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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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That’s one of those things about love. It always assumes it can find a way to express itself.
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The world will figure out what we really believe, by watching what we actually do.
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