We keep telling God our opinions; He keeps asking us about our hearts. We’ll grow the most when we have the right conversations.
BOB GOFFI used to think JESUS motivated us with ultimatums, but now I know He pursues us in LOVE.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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God’s grace comes in all shapes, sizes, and circumstances as God continues to unfold something magnificent in me.
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Most people need love and acceptance a lot more than they need advice.
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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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You don’t need a plan; you just need to be present.
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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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We need to wash the feet of our enemies.
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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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Jesus won’t try to speak over the noise in our lives; love whispers so we won’t be confused about who’s doing the talking.
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Grace draws a circle around everyone and says they’re in.
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Love doesn’t just keep thinking about it or keep planning for it… Simply put: Love does!
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Sometimes we ask God for help and God gives us hope, not because it’s different, but because it’s the same.
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Love doesn’t try to be efficient; when it is most extravagant, it is least wasted.
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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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Jesus lets us be real with our life and our faith.
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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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