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 GOFFGod delights in answering our impossible prayers.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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The way we treat people we disagree with most is a report card on what we’ve learned about love.
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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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Love God, love your neighbors, and do stuff!
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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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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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Small streams don’t plan to be mighty rivers. We just move in a direction; God decides what He’ll have us become.
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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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But the kind of love that God created and demonstrated is a costly one because it involves sacrifice and presence. It’s a love that operates more like a sign language than being spoken outright.
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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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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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When love is a theory, it’s safe, it’s free of risk. But love in the brain changes nothing.
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Nobody turns down an invitation to the White House, but I’ve seen plenty of people turn down an invitation to fully live.
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That’s what love does – it pursues blindly, unflinchingly, and without end. When you go after something you love, you’ll do anything it takes to get it, even if it costs everything.
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That’s one of the things about love. It doesn’t recognize boundaries and never obeys the rules we try to give it.
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I used to think God guided us by opening and closing doors, but now I know sometimes God wants us to kick some doors down.
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