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I used to think JESUS motivated us with ultimatums, but now I know He pursues us in LOVE.

Bob Goff

I used to think you had to be special for God to use you, but now I know you simply need to say yes.
BOB GOFF

God Religious Thinking
It’s easy to confuse a lot of activity with a purposeful life. Do what lasts; let the rest fall away.
BOB GOFF

Easy Fall Lasts
Courage isn’t the absence of fear, it’s just deciding that fear isn’t calling the shots anymore
BOB GOFF

Absence Calling Shots
When you trust someone, you don’t need to know everything.
BOB GOFF

Knows Needs Something Trust
What I’ve learned the more time I’ve spent following Jesus is that God delights in answering our impossible prayers.
BOB GOFF

Delight Jesus Prayer
Living a life fully engaged in 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.
BOB GOFF

Engaged Most People Things
Love finds us where we are, not where we were.
BOB GOFF

Emotion Find Love Trust
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,
BOB GOFF

Heart Opportunity 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
Love has the kind of power criticism only wishes it had.
BOB GOFF

Criticism Kind Wish
Sometimes we ask God for help and God gives us hope, not because it’s different, but because it’s the same.
BOB GOFF

Different Giving Helping
You don’t want to pick a fight with just the guy at the deli, [you want to] pick a fight somewhere in the world and just run towards it. Run because the fight is going to go on without you if you miss it.
BOB GOFF

Fighting Guy Running Somewhere
Insecurity wants us to keep track of our failures; grace doesn’t even write them down.
BOB GOFF

Grace Track Writing
A hope that makes us brave and expels darkness with light. That’s what I want my life to be all about – full of abandon, whimsy, and in love.
BOB GOFF

Abandon Brave Darkness Love
I don’t think success is what we’ve made of ourselves; I think it’s what we’ve made of others.
BOB GOFF

Made Ourselves Success Thinking
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.
BOB GOFF

Attitude Dream Love Something

I used to think JESUS motivated us with ultimatums, but now I know He pursues us in LOVE.

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