You can quit anything on a Thursday.
BOB GOFFThat’s a prank. It has no shelf life, like reassembling the principal’s car up on the roof of the gym. It’s cute and everything but there’s no shelf-life, and it can actually be kind of destructive. But a caper is different. It’s something where everybody has made it in.
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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Next to grace, I bet God thinks making us need each other was one of His best ideas.
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Like the circular rails of a train at an amusement park, the scripts we know offer a brand of security, of predictability, of safety for us. But the problem is, they only take us where we’ve already been.
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God delights in answering our impossible prayers.
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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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I learned that fully loving and fully living are not only synonymous but the kind of life that Jesus invited us to be part of.
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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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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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God wants us to kick it down. Or perhaps just sit outside of it long enough until somebody tells us we can come in.
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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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Most people need love and acceptance a lot more than they need advice.
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One thing I do is (and I realize this might sound nuts), every month or so, I try to take like an Etch-a-sketch [so to speak], and I clear my faith. I go to zero, clear the deck. And I start adding things back to my faith, one at a time.
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What I’ve learned the more time I’ve spent following Jesus is that God delights in answering our impossible prayers.
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Figure out what fuels your joy, then do lots of that
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Live your life like you’re exactly who Jesus thinks you are.
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