God makes confetti out of our titles and accomplishments to celebrate the poor and the humble.
BOB GOFFWe keep telling God our opinions; He keeps asking us about our hearts. We’ll grow the most when we have the right conversations.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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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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What I’ve learned the more time I’ve spent following Jesus is that 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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Insecurity wants us to keep track of our failures; grace doesn’t even write them down.
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Something happens when you feel ownership. You no longer act like a spectator or consumer, because you’re an owner. Faith is at its best when it’s that way too. It’s best lived when it’s owned.
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We spend a lot of energy remembering failures God spent a lot of love saying we could forget.
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Stand up like a mountain; have faith like a rock; love like an avalanche
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We determine how much influence we’ll have, when we decide how available we’ll be.
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Great love leaves little doubt.
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Courage isn’t the absence of fear, it’s just deciding that fear isn’t calling the shots anymore
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I used to think life could be shared with anyone, but now I know choosing the right people is pretty important.
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Like the circular rails of a train at an amusement park, the scripts we know offer a brand of security, of predictability, of safety for us. But the problem is, they only take us where we’ve already been.
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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 more love, not more information, that will change our hearts.
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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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