Love doesn’t try to be efficient; when it is most extravagant, it is least wasted.
BOB GOFFI learned that fully loving and fully living are not only synonymous but the kind of life that Jesus invited us to be part of.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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I used to think I could learn about Jesus by studying Him, but now I know Jesus doesn’t want stalkers.
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Every time we see people as ordinary, we turn the wine back into water.
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We all want to have a place where we can dream and escape anything that wraps steel bands around our imagination and creativity.
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I used to hope the things I did would work; now I hope they last.
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Grace means we don’t need to airbrush our lives to make them look like they’re working.
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Stop doing what you’re able to do and figure out what you were made to do – then do lots of that.
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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’s grace comes in all shapes, sizes, and circumstances as God continues to unfold something magnificent in me.
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Don’t let other people decide who you are.
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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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If we only do what we’re familiar with, we might miss what we’ve been made for.
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Something happens when you feel ownership. You no longer act like a spectator or consumer, because you’re an owner. Faith is at its best when it’s that way too. It’s best lived when it’s owned.
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Do less of what you’re terrible at and more of what you’re good at. I don’t know if that sounds too simple, but it’s been working for me.
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I think of the church as this bride of Christ, who is incredibly capable of doing amazing things. And so where we see injustice, we come, not with fists clenched but with palms up.
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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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