We determine how much influence we’ll have, when we decide how available we’ll be.
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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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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Love God, love your neighbors, and do stuff!
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It will be more love, not more information, that will change our hearts.
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When you trust someone, you don’t need to know everything.
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We need to wash the feet of our enemies.
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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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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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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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We’ll fill our lives with what we cultivate the most. Plant grace by the acre.
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The way we treat people we disagree with most is a report card on what we’ve learned about love.
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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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Jesus lets us be real with our life and our faith.
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Surround yourself with prompts that remind you who Jesus is.
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Like the circular rails of a train at an amusement park, the scripts we know offer a brand of security, of predictability, of safety for us. But the problem is, they only take us where we’ve already been.
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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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