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.
BOB GOFFIf 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.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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Live a life of conspicuous grace and courageous resolve.
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Grace draws a circle around everyone and says they’re in.
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What distracts us will begin to define us. We don’t need to swing at every pitch.
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Cynicism is fear posing as confidence; joy is hope let off the leash.
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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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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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Day turned to night, His friends scattered and death thought it had won. But heaven just started counting to three
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Stop telling people how far they have left to go. Instead tell them how far they’ve come.
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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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Being engaged is a way of doing life, a way of living and loving. It’s about going to extremes and expressing the bright hope that life offers us.
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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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God made beauty so we’d know how He felt about us.
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When love is a theory, it’s safe, it’s free of risk. But love in the brain changes nothing.
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Love is never stationary.
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Love God. Love people. And do stuff. That’s my punch list everyday.
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