When love is a theory, it’s safe, it’s free of risk. But love in the brain changes nothing.
BOB GOFFMost of us have all the information we need. What we need is more passion.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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Jesus never told His friends to play it safe.
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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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We won’t be like Jesus if it’s more important to us to be like each other. God doesn’t compare what he creates.
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Grace draws a circle around everyone and says they’re in.
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God wants us to kick it down. Or perhaps just sit outside of it long enough until somebody tells us we can come in.
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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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God places that desire deep in our hearts because He wants it for us and it honors Him. Maybe there are times when we think a door has been closed and, instead of misinterpreting the circumstances,
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Don’t let other people decide who you are.
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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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There’s a lot to be concerned about; there’s more to be hopeful for.
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One 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.
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The teachers I’ve learned the most from, didn’t think they were teaching me; they just thought we were friends.
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Simply put: love does.
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Words people say not only have a shelf life but have the ability to shape life.
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Whatever you’re aiming for, God’s better.
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We all want to have a place where we can dream and escape anything that wraps steel bands around our imagination and creativity.
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Surround yourself with prompts that remind you who Jesus is.
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Live your life like you’re exactly who Jesus thinks you are.
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Stand up like a mountain; have faith like a rock; love like an avalanche
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Love doesn’t just keep thinking about it or keep planning for it… Simply put: Love does!
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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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If you get a no from somebody, don’t say, ‘I’m going to take this as some big cosmic signal.’ No, you just got a no, deal with it. Just go to the next step.
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We plant sod where God wants 2 plant seed. He’s more interested in growing our character than having us look finished.
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I used to think God guided us by opening and closing doors, but now I know sometimes God wants us to kick some doors down.
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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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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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