We’re all amateurs when it comes to love. Don’t be too hard on each other.
BOB GOFFOne 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.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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I don’t think success is what we’ve made of ourselves; I think it’s what we’ve made of others.
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We won’t figure out what’s sacred in life if we settle for what’s safe.
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I never know what all of the steps are but I do know the next step.
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You can quit anything on a Thursday.
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Don’t let other people decide who you are.
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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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Grace means we can put the chalk away and stop keeping score!
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We can be the light of the world without leaving our high beams on and annoying everybody.
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A hope that makes us brave and expels darkness with light. That’s what I want my life to be all about – full of abandon, whimsy, and in love.
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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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The way we love people we disagree with is the best evidence of what we really believe.
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Surround yourself with prompts that remind you who Jesus is.
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Every day God invites us on the same kind of adventure. It’s not a trip where He sends us a rigid itinerary, He simply invites us.
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I used to think I could learn about Jesus by studying Him, but now I know Jesus doesn’t want stalkers.
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We get to be God’s plan for the whole world by pointing people toward Him.
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Nobody turns down an invitation to the White House, but I’ve seen plenty of people turn down an invitation to fully live.
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We’ll fill our lives with what we cultivate the most. Plant grace by the acre.
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It will be the people with the greatest love, not the most information, who will influence us to change.
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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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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 keep asking for answers; God keeps sending us people.
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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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Live your life like you’re exactly who Jesus thinks you are.
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Small streams don’t plan to be mighty rivers. We just move in a direction; God decides what He’ll have us become.
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Do one thing that’s heroic for you today – big or small – and fear won’t define you anymore.
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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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