Love finds us where we are, not where we were.
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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The battle for our hearts is fought on the pages of our calendar.
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Most of us have all the information we need. What we need is more passion.
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Courage doesn’t mean we’re not afraid anymore, it just means our actions aren’t controlled by our doubts.
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I don’t think anyone aims to be typical, really. Most people even vow to themselves some time in high school or college not to be typical. But still, they just kind of loop back to it somehow.
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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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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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Living 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.
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We’ll fill our lives with what we cultivate the most. Plant grace by the acre.
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What distracts us will begin to define us. We don’t need to swing at every pitch.
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When you are in high school, you don’t give much thought to what you can’t do. For most people, that gets learned later, and for still fewer, gets unlearned for the rest of life.
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It will be more love, not more information, that will change our hearts.
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We’re part of God’s much bigger plan for the whole world. Just like God’s Son arrived here, so did you. And after Jesus arrived, God whispered to all of humanity “It’s your move.
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The world will figure out what we really believe, by watching what we actually do.
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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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God delights in answering our impossible prayers.
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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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See people for who they’re becoming. Not who they were.
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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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I know that sounds so circular, but for you, what you were made to do, is different than what I was made to do.
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What I noticed, though, is almost every time I type the word love, it gets changed to the word live…
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…we need to stop plotting the course and instead just land the plane on our plans to make a difference by getting to the “do” part of faith.
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When it feels like we need to choose between being right and being humble- pick both
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God keeps telling us to be not afraid, to go big
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We get to be God’s plan for the whole world by pointing people toward Him.
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Jesus is nuts about kids. He doesn’t seem to think much of lawyers which really lands close to home, but He’s nuts about kids and loves justice.
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When you love people like Jesus, you get messy. But messy looks good on you!
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