When you trust someone, you don’t need to know everything.
BOB GOFFLiving a life fully engaged and full of whimsy and the kind of things that love does is something most people plan to do, but along the way they just kind of forget. Their dreams become one of those “we’ll go there next time” deferrals.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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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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Love is never stationary.
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Most people need love and acceptance a lot more than they need advice.
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Love finds us where we are, not where we were.
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Stop doing what you’re able to do and figure out what you were made to do – then do lots of that.
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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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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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Fix your eyes on Jesus; it’s ok to stare.
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I used to think JESUS motivated us with ultimatums, but now I know He pursues us in LOVE.
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God wants us to kick it down. Or perhaps just sit outside of it long enough until somebody tells us we can come in.
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Insecurity wants us to keep track of our failures; grace doesn’t even write them down.
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It will be more love, not more information, that will change our hearts.
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Cynicism is fear posing as confidence; joy is hope let off the leash.
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No book is a chapter, no chapter tells the whole story, no mistake defines who we are. Hope makes our lives page turners.
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Simply put: love does.
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