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.
BOB GOFFLove doesn’t try to be efficient; when it is most extravagant, it is least wasted.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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We’ll fill our lives with what we cultivate the most. Plant grace by the acre.
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We can be the light of the world without leaving our high beams on and annoying everybody.
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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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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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Every time we see people as ordinary, we turn the wine back into water.
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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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Jesus lets us be real with our life and our faith.
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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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A hope that makes us brave and expels darkness with light. That’s what I want my life to be all about – full of abandon, whimsy, and in love.
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Small streams don’t plan to be mighty rivers. We just move in a direction; God decides what He’ll have us become.
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Grace works that way. It’s a kind word from a gentle person with an impossible prayer. It’s a force sometimes transmitted best hand to hand in a dark place.
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We might be known for what we believed, but we’re certain to be remembered for what we did about it.
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Don’t let other people decide who you are.
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Love has the kind of power criticism only wishes it had.
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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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