We plant sod where God wants 2 plant seed. He’s more interested in growing our character than having us look finished.
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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Live a life of conspicuous grace and courageous resolve.
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The world will figure out what we really believe, by watching what we actually do.
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I used to be afraid of failing at something that really mattered to me, but now I’m more afraid of succeeding at things that don’t matter.
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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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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 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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That’s what love does – it pursues blindly, unflinchingly, and without end. When you go after something you love, you’ll do anything it takes to get it, even if it costs everything.
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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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Love like there’s no tomorrow; live like there’s no yesterday. We’re forgiven; now go love people like we believe 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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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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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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Love is never stationary.
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You don’t need a plan; you just need to be present.
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