Fix your eyes on Jesus; it’s ok to stare.
BOB GOFFJesus 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.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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God makes confetti out of our titles and accomplishments to celebrate the poor and the humble.
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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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Living a life fully engaged and full of whimsy and the kind of things that love does is something most people plan to do, but along the way they just kind of forget. Their dreams become one of those “we’ll go there next time” deferrals.
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I used to want to fix people, but now I just want to be with them.
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I used to think life could be shared with anyone, but now I know choosing the right people is pretty important.
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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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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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Love God. Love people. And do stuff. That’s my punch list everyday.
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Every time we see people as ordinary, we turn the wine back into water.
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Every day God invites us on the same kind of adventure. It’s not a trip where He sends us a rigid itinerary, He simply invites us.
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The battle for our hearts is fought on the pages of our calendar.
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We need to wash the feet of our enemies.
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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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What distracts us will begin to define us. We don’t need to swing at every pitch.
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…we need to stop plotting the course and instead just land the plane on our plans to make a difference by getting to the “do” part of faith.
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