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We determine how much influence we’ll have, when we decide how available we’ll be.

Bob Goff

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.
BOB GOFF

Actual Cute Destructive Everything Prank Principle
You don’t want to pick a fight with just the guy at the deli, [you want to] pick a fight somewhere in the world and just run towards it. Run because the fight is going to go on without you if you miss it.
BOB GOFF

Fighting Guy Running Somewhere
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.
BOB GOFF

Engaged Most People Things
Stop doing what you’re able to do and figure out what you were made to do – then do lots of that.
BOB GOFF

Able Figures Made
God keeps telling us to be not afraid, to go big
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Afraid Bigs Telling
Words people say not only have a shelf life but have the ability to shape life.
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People Shapes Shelves
Selfless love is always costly; fear can’t afford it, pride doesn’t understand it and friends never forget it.
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Love Pride Selfless
I don’t know every step I’m supposed to take. I think Jesus just wants me to take the next step.
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Jesus Next Step Thinking
Love God. Love people. And do stuff. That’s my punch list everyday.
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Day Every People Stuff
No book is a chapter, no chapter tells the whole story, no mistake defines who we are. Hope makes our lives page turners.
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Books Mistakes Stories
Courage isn’t the absence of fear, it’s just deciding that fear isn’t calling the shots anymore
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Absence Calling Shots
Grace works that way. It’s a kind word from a gentle person with an impossible prayer. It’s a force sometimes transmitted best hand to hand in a dark place.
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Dark Hands Prayer
Jesus lets us be real with our life and our faith.
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Being Faith Jesus Real
The shallow end of hope is usually the deep end of grace.
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Ends Grace Shallow
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.
BOB GOFF

Church Fists Thinking
The way we treat people we disagree with most is a report card on what we’ve learned about love.
BOB GOFF

Cards People Way
Do what lasts, get around to everything else.
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Around Everything Lasts
Love God, love your neighbors, and do stuff!
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God Love Neighbor Stuff
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.
BOB GOFF

Broken God Religious Work
Fear will give us a reason not to try; hope will give us a reason not to listen.
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Giving Reason Trying
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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Matter Way Whimsy
But instead of spending all of our time having Bible studies about what we were made to do, go do stuff and you’ll figure out what you were made to do, because you’ll be great at some things and you’ll be terrible at others.
BOB GOFF

Bible Instead Made Some Things
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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Heart Opportunity Thinking
We plant sod where God wants 2 plant seed. He’s more interested in growing our character than having us look finished.
BOB GOFF

Character Growing Looks
Sometimes we ask God for help and God gives us hope, not because it’s different, but because it’s the same.
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Different Giving Helping
They loop us back to places where everyone can easily go, not necessarily where we were made to go. Living a different kind of life takes some guts and grit and a new way of seeing things.
BOB GOFF

Everyone Girl Living Necessarily Seeing Things
We determine how much influence we’ll have, when we decide how available we’ll be.
BOB GOFF

Available Determine Influence

We determine how much influence we’ll have, when we decide how available we’ll be.

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