I used to think you had to be special for God to use you, but now I know you simply need to say yes.
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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Grace means we can put the chalk away and stop keeping score!
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Live your life like you’re exactly who Jesus thinks you are.
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It has always seemed to me that broken things, just like broken people, get used more; it’s probably because God has more pieces to work with.
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You can quit anything on a Thursday.
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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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We can’t always see people’s pain; they can always feel our love.
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We’ll never honor Christ if we forget how to honor each other.
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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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Love has the kind of power criticism only wishes it had.
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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 won’t be distracted by comparison if we’re captivated with purpose.
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What Jesus said we could do is leave typical behind.
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Loving people the way Jesus did, means living a life of constant interruptions. Bring it.
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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 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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