Insecurity wants us to keep track of our failures; grace doesn’t even write them down.
BOB GOFFLove God. Love people. And do stuff. That’s my punch list everyday.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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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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God’s never as nervous about our future, or as concerned about our past, as we are.
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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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We can be the light of the world without leaving our high beams on and annoying everybody.
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Grace works that way. It’s a kind word from a gentle person with an impossible prayer. It’s a force sometimes transmitted best hand to hand in a dark place.
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We keep telling God our opinions; He keeps asking us about our hearts. We’ll grow the most when we have the right conversations.
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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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The teachers I’ve learned the most from, didn’t think they were teaching me; they just thought we were friends.
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I’m all for getting together with men and women in small groups around Scripture and letting it just wash over us, but for me, I’ve been meeting with the same ten guys for like 15 years now, but we don’t have a Bible study every Friday, we have a Bible doing.
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We get to be God’s plan for the whole world by pointing people toward Him.
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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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I used to think God wouldn’t talk to me, but now I know I’m just selective with what I choose to hear.
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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 determine how much influence we’ll have, when we decide how available we’ll be.
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Love God, love your neighbors, and do stuff!
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