I used to think JESUS motivated us with ultimatums, but now I know He pursues us in LOVE.
BOB GOFFJesus never told His friends to play it safe.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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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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That’s what love does – it pursues blindly, unflinchingly, and without end. When you go after something you love, you’ll do anything it takes to get it, even if it costs everything.
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We determine how much influence we’ll have, when we decide how available we’ll be.
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God keeps telling us to be not afraid, to go big
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I used to be afraid of failing at something that really mattered to me, but now I’m more afraid of succeeding at things that don’t matter.
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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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If we only do what we’re familiar with, we might miss what we’ve been made for.
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Fear will give us a reason not to try; hope will give us a reason not to listen.
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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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Courage doesn’t mean we’re not afraid anymore, it just means our actions aren’t controlled by our doubts.
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Living a life fully engaged in 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.
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Not surprisingly, we’d get a lot more done too, because we wouldn’t care who’s looking or taking credit. All that energy would be funnelled into awesomeness.
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We need to make our faith our very own love story.
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I think of the church as this bride of Christ, who is incredibly capable of doing amazing things. And so where we see injustice, we come, not with fists clenched but with palms up.
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The way we love people we disagree with is the best evidence of what we really believe.
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