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

Bob Goff

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
There’s a lot to be concerned about; there’s more to be hopeful for.
BOB GOFF

Concerned Hopeful Lot More
God places that desire deep in our hearts because He wants it for us and it honors Him. Maybe there are times when we think a door has been closed and, instead of misinterpreting the circumstances,
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Circumstances Close God Instead
We plant sod where God wants 2 plant seed. He’s more interested in growing our character than having us look finished.
BOB GOFF

Character Growing Looks
When love is a theory, it’s safe, it’s free of risk. But love in the brain changes nothing.
BOB GOFF

Brain Love Risk
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.
BOB GOFF

Abut Answer Formulas Passion
God’s never as nervous about our future, or as concerned about our past, as we are.
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Future Nervous Our Past
If you’re following God and haven’t lost much of what you’ve been holding on to – follow a little closer.
BOB GOFF

Holding Littles Lost
God asks what it is He’s made us to love, what it is that captures our attention, what feeds that deep indescribable need of our souls to experience the richness of the world He made. And then, leaning over us, He whispers, “Let’s go do that together.
BOB GOFF

Ask Attention Captures God Layering Made Richness
I used to be afraid of failing at something that really mattered to me, but now I’m more afraid of succeeding at things that don’t matter.
BOB GOFF

Failing Matter Succeed
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
Every time we see people as ordinary, we turn the wine back into water.
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Ordinary People Water Wine
Don’t let not knowing how it’ll end keep you from beginning. Uncertainty chases us out into the open where God is waiting.
BOB GOFF

Ends Knowing Waiting
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
Figure out what fuels your joy, then do lots of that
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Figures Fuel Joy
Love doesn’t try to be efficient; when it is most extravagant, it is least wasted.
BOB GOFF

Efficient Extravagant Trying

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