One thing I do is (and I realize this might sound nuts), every month or so, I try to take like an Etch-a-sketch [so to speak], and I clear my faith. I go to zero, clear the deck. And I start adding things back to my faith, one at a time.
BOB GOFFDon’t let other people decide who you are.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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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.
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We spend a lot of energy remembering failures God spent a lot of love saying we could forget.
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Day turned to night, His friends scattered and death thought it had won. But heaven just started counting to three
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People who want to manipulate you will fear your joy, because it’s not easily controlled.
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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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We won’t be like Jesus if it’s more important to us to be like each other. God doesn’t compare what he creates.
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Every day God invites us on the same kind of adventure. It’s not a trip where He sends us a rigid itinerary, He simply invites us.
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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?’
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There’s a lot to be concerned about; there’s more to be hopeful for.
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We’ll never honor Christ if we forget how to honor each other.
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I used to want to fix people, but now I just want to be with them.
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I used to hope the things I did would work; now I hope they last.
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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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Do one thing that’s heroic for you today – big or small – and fear won’t define you anymore.
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The teachers I’ve learned the most from, didn’t think they were teaching me; they just thought we were friends.
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