See people for who they’re becoming. Not who they were.
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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We spend a lot of energy remembering failures God spent a lot of love saying we could forget.
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God isn’t afraid of our doubts; He’s way more concerned when we fake it.
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Love doesn’t try to be efficient; when it is most extravagant, it is least wasted.
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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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That’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.
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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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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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Words people say not only have a shelf life but have the ability to shape life.
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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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We determine how much influence we’ll have, when we decide how available we’ll be.
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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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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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Love finds us where we are, not where we were.
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God finds us in the holes we dig for ourselves. We see failures; He sees foundations.
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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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