Don’t let other people decide who you are.
BOB GOFFStop telling people how far they have left to go. Instead tell them how far they’ve come.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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It’s easy to confuse a lot of activity with a purposeful life. Do what lasts; let the rest fall away.
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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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The way we treat people we disagree with most is a report card on what we’ve learned about love.
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I learned that fully loving and fully living are not only synonymous but the kind of life that Jesus invited us to be part of.
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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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I used to hope the things I did would work; now I hope they last.
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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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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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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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We won’t be like Jesus if it’s more important to us to be like each other. God doesn’t compare what he creates.
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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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Stop telling people how far they have left to go. Instead tell them how far they’ve come.
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But instead of spending all of our time having Bible studies about what we were made to do, go do stuff and you’ll figure out what you were made to do, because you’ll be great at some things and you’ll be terrible at others.
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I used to think God guided us by opening and closing doors, but now I know sometimes God wants us to kick some doors down.
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God delights in answering our impossible prayers.
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