We won’t figure out what’s sacred in life if we settle for what’s safe.
BOB GOFFThat’s one of the things about love. It doesn’t recognize boundaries and never obeys the rules we try to give it.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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It will be the people with the greatest love, not the most information, who will influence us to change.
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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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Fear will give us a reason not to try; hope will give us a reason not to listen.
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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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For those who resonate with formulas, here it is: add your whole life, your loves, your passions, and your interests together with what God said He wants us to be about, and that’s your answer.
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Insecurity wants us to keep track of our failures; grace doesn’t even write them down.
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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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Don’t let not knowing how it’ll end keep you from beginning. Uncertainty chases us out into the open where God is waiting.
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Most people need love and acceptance a lot more than they need advice.
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We need to wash the feet of our enemies.
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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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Every time we see people as ordinary, we turn the wine back into water.
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I used to be afraid of failing at something that really mattered to me, but now I’m more afraid of succeeding at things that don’t matter.
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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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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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