Love finds us where we are, not where we were.
BOB GOFFFix your eyes on Jesus; it’s ok to stare.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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Love God. Love people. And do stuff. That’s my punch list everyday.
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The real game of Bigger and Better that Jesus is playing with us usually isn’t about money or possessions or even our hopes. It’s about our pride.
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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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What Jesus said we could do is leave typical behind.
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But the kind of love that God created and demonstrated is a costly one because it involves sacrifice and presence. It’s a love that operates more like a sign language than being spoken outright.
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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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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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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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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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Whatever you’re aiming for, God’s better.
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See people for who they’re becoming. Not who they were.
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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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When love is a theory, it’s safe, it’s free of risk. But love in the brain changes nothing.
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Whimsy doesn’t care if you are the driver or the passenger; all that matters is that you are on your way.
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Loving people the way Jesus did, means living a life of constant interruptions. Bring it.
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