Grace means we don’t need to airbrush our lives to make them look like they’re working.
BOB GOFFI don’t think anyone aims to be typical, really. Most people even vow to themselves some time in high school or college not to be typical. But still, they just kind of loop back to it somehow.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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The shallow end of hope is usually the deep end of grace.
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Jesus lets us be real with our life and our faith.
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Grace means we can put the chalk away and stop keeping score!
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I know that sounds so circular, but for you, what you were made to do, is different than what I was made to do.
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We’ll fill our lives with what we cultivate the most. Plant grace by the acre.
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I don’t know every step I’m supposed to take. I think Jesus just wants me to take the next step.
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Living a life of following Christ means constant interruptions.
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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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Jesus won’t try to speak over the noise in our lives; love whispers so we won’t be confused about who’s doing the talking.
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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’s never as nervous about our future, or as concerned about our past, as we are.
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When you love people like Jesus, you get messy. But messy looks good on you!
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The way we deal with uncertainty says a lot about whether Jesus is ahead of us leading, or behind us just carrying our stuff.
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Love finds us where we are, not where we were.
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Stop telling people how far they have left to go. Instead tell them how far they’ve come.
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