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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.

Bob Goff

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 GOFF

Enough God Perhaps Somebody Tells Wants
We’ll never honor Christ if we forget how to honor each other.
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Christ Forget Honor
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
When love is a theory, it’s safe, it’s free of risk. But love in the brain changes nothing.
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Brain Love Risk
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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Creativity Dream Imagination
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
Love finds us where we are, not where we were.
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Emotion Find Love Trust
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.
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Church Fists Thinking
You can quit anything on a Thursday.
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Quit Quitting Thursday
But the kind of love that God created and demonstrated is a costly one because it involves sacrifice and presence. It’s a love that operates more like a sign language than being spoken outright.
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Kind Language Sacrifice Sign
Stop telling people how far they have left to go. Instead tell them how far they’ve come.
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Come Left People
Love like there’s no tomorrow; live like there’s no yesterday. We’re forgiven; now go love people like we believe it
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Believe People Yesterday
God’s grace comes in all shapes, sizes, and circumstances as God continues to unfold something magnificent in me.
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Grace Shapes Size
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
I never know what all of the steps are but I do know the next step.
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Know never Next Steps
I used to think JESUS motivated us with ultimatums, but now I know He pursues us in LOVE.
BOB GOFF

Jesus Motivate Thinking
He asks if we’ll give up that thing we’re so proud of, that thing we believe causes us to matter in the eyes of the world, and give it up to follow Him. He’s asking us, ‘Will you take what you think defines you, leave it behind, and let Me define who you are instead?’
BOB GOFF

Ask Cause Define Eyes Proud Thing
…we need to stop plotting the course and instead just land the plane on our plans to make a difference by getting to the “do” part of faith.
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Differences Land Making Remember
The way we treat people we disagree with most is a report card on what we’ve learned about love.
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Cards People Way
We’ll fill our lives with what we cultivate the most. Plant grace by the acre.
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Acres Grace Plant
If you’re following God and haven’t lost much of what you’ve been holding on to – follow a little closer.
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Holding Littles Lost
What Jesus said we could do is leave typical behind.
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Jesus Said Typical
I used to think you had to be special for God to use you, but now I know you simply need to say yes.
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God Religious Thinking
We won’t be distracted by comparison if we’re captivated with purpose.
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Captivated Distracted Purpose
No book is a chapter, no chapter tells the whole story, no mistake defines who we are. Hope makes our lives page turners.
BOB GOFF

Books Mistakes Stories
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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College School Thinking
Love doesn’t try to be efficient; when it is most extravagant, it is least wasted.
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Efficient Extravagant Trying

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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