God wants us to kick it down. Or perhaps just sit outside of it long enough until somebody tells us we can come in.
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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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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It will be the people with the greatest love, not the most information, who will influence us to change.
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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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Nobody turns down an invitation to the White House, but I’ve seen plenty of people turn down an invitation to fully live.
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We determine how much influence we’ll have, when we decide how available we’ll be.
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You don’t need a plan; you just need to be present.
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We can’t always see people’s pain; they can always feel our love.
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I’m all for getting together with men and women in small groups around Scripture and letting it just wash over us, but for me, I’ve been meeting with the same ten guys for like 15 years now, but we don’t have a Bible study every Friday, we have a Bible doing.
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What would be the first thing I’d add back? Jesus. It sounds a little bit like a Sunday school answer, but that’s what I do. Then what’s the next thing? And I’d say, well, loving people. And then the next.
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God doesn’t break things so He can fix them; He fixes broken things so He can use them.
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Love is never stationary.
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I don’t think success is what we’ve made of ourselves; I think it’s what we’ve made of others.
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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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God made beauty so we’d know how He felt about us.
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Fear will give us a reason not to try; hope will give us a reason not to listen.
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