Don’t let not knowing how it’ll end keep you from beginning. Uncertainty chases us out into the open where God is waiting.
BOB GOFFIt’s easy to confuse a lot of activity with a purposeful life. Do what lasts; let the rest fall away.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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Most people need love and acceptance a lot more than they need advice.
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I once heard somebody say that God had closed a door on an opportunity they had hoped for. But I’ve always wondered if when we want to do something that we know is right and good,
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I used to want to fix people, but now I just want to be with them.
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Selfless love is always costly; fear can’t afford it, pride doesn’t understand it and friends never forget it.
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He asks if we’ll give up that thing we’re so proud of, that thing we believe causes us to matter in the eyes of the world, and give it up to follow Him. He’s asking us, ‘Will you take what you think defines you, leave it behind, and let Me define who you are instead?’
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We keep asking for answers; God keeps sending us people.
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When it feels like we need to choose between being right and being humble- pick both
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There’s a lot to be concerned about; there’s more to be hopeful for.
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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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Grace means we can put the chalk away and stop keeping score!
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We need to wash the feet of our enemies.
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That’s one of those things about love. It always assumes it can find a way to express itself.
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Every time we see people as ordinary, we turn the wine back into water.
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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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When love is a theory, it’s safe, it’s free of risk. But love in the brain changes nothing.
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