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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

Fear will give us a reason not to try; hope will give us a reason not to listen.
BOB GOFF

Giving Reason Trying
The world will figure out what we really believe, by watching what we actually do.
BOB GOFF

Believe Figures World
The real game of Bigger and Better that Jesus is playing with us usually isn’t about money or possessions or even our hopes. It’s about our pride.
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Give Up Jesus Pride Real
Stop doing what you’re able to do and figure out what you were made to do – then do lots of that.
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Able Figures Made
Living a life fully engaged and 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. Their dreams become one of those “we’ll go there next time” deferrals.
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Attitude Dream Love Something
Love doesn’t just keep thinking about it or keep planning for it… Simply put: Love does!
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Planning Simple Thinking
We get to be God’s plan for the whole world by pointing people toward Him.
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God People Plan World
For those who resonate with formulas, here it is: add your whole life, your loves, your passions, and your interests together with what God said He wants us to be about, and that’s your answer.
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Abut Answer Formulas Passion
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
We won’t figure out what’s sacred in life if we settle for what’s safe.
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Sacred Safe Settling
Live a life of conspicuous grace and courageous resolve.
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Courageous Grace Resolve
God made beauty so we’d know how He felt about us.
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Felt Knows Made
Whimsy doesn’t care if you are the driver or the passenger; all that matters is that you are on your way.
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Matter Way Whimsy
God delights in answering our impossible prayers.
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Delight Impossible Prayer
What distracts us will begin to define us. We don’t need to swing at every pitch.
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Define Needs Pitch Swings
Do less of what you’re terrible at and more of what you’re good at. I don’t know if that sounds too simple, but it’s been working for me.
BOB GOFF

Simple Sound Terrible
But instead of spending all of our time having Bible studies about what we were made to do, go do stuff and you’ll figure out what you were made to do, because you’ll be great at some things and you’ll be terrible at others.
BOB GOFF

Bible Instead Made Some Things
Do what lasts, get around to everything else.
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Around Everything Lasts
No book is a chapter, no chapter tells the whole story, no mistake defines who we are. Hope makes our lives page turners.
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Books Mistakes Stories
Grace draws a circle around everyone and says they’re in.
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Circles Draws Grace
Day turned to night, His friends scattered and death thought it had won. But heaven just started counting to three
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Heaven Night Three
The way we deal with uncertainty says a lot about whether Jesus is ahead of us leading, or behind us just carrying our stuff.
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Carrying Jesus Stuff Way
You can quit anything on a Thursday.
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Quit Quitting Thursday
We spend a lot of energy remembering failures God spent a lot of love saying we could forget.
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Energy Forget Remember
We’re all amateurs when it comes to love. Don’t be too hard on each other.
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Amateurs Hard Other
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

Bigs Next Signals Steps
Jesus never told His friends to play it safe.
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Friends Jesus Play Safe

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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