What I’ve learned the more time I’ve spent following Jesus is that God delights in answering our impossible prayers.
BOB GOFFDon’t let not knowing how it’ll end keep you from beginning. Uncertainty chases us out into the open where God is waiting.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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Most of us have all the information we need. What we need is more passion.
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He asks if we’ll give up that thing we’re so proud of, that thing we believe causes us to matter in the eyes of the world, and give it up to follow Him. He’s asking us, ‘Will you take what you think defines you, leave it behind, and let Me define who you are instead?’
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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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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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We’ll fill our lives with what we cultivate the most. Plant grace by the acre.
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Sometimes we ask God for help and God gives us hope, not because it’s different, but because it’s the same.
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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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God asks what it is He’s made us to love, what it is that captures our attention, what feeds that deep indescribable need of our souls to experience the richness of the world He made. And then, leaning over us, He whispers, “Let’s go do that together.
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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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Day turned to night, His friends scattered and death thought it had won. But heaven just started counting to three
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I once heard somebody say that God had closed a door on an opportunity they had hoped for. But I’ve always wondered if when we want to do something that we know is right and good,
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When you love people like Jesus, you get messy. But messy looks good on you!
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The real game of Bigger and Better that Jesus is playing with us usually isn’t about money or possessions or even our hopes. It’s about our pride.
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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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They loop us back to places where everyone can easily go, not necessarily where we were made to go. Living a different kind of life takes some guts and grit and a new way of seeing things.
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