When it feels like we need to choose between being right and being humble- pick both
BOB GOFFGod delights in answering our impossible prayers.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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The world will figure out what we really believe, by watching what we actually do.
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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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What would be the first thing I’d add back? Jesus. It sounds a little bit like a Sunday school answer, but that’s what I do. Then what’s the next thing? And I’d say, well, loving people. And then the next.
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Most of us have all the information we need. What we need is more passion.
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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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I used to want to fix people, but now I just want to be with them.
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Love God, love your neighbors, and do stuff!
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They loop us back to places where everyone can easily go, not necessarily where we were made to go. Living a different kind of life takes some guts and grit and a new way of seeing things.
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We’re part of God’s much bigger plan for the whole world. Just like God’s Son arrived here, so did you. And after Jesus arrived, God whispered to all of humanity “It’s your move.
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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.
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Surround yourself with prompts that remind you who Jesus is.
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Next to grace, I bet God thinks making us need each other was one of His best ideas.
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Grace draws a circle around everyone and says they’re in.
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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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It has always seemed to me that broken things, just like broken people, get used more; it’s probably because God has more pieces to work with.
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