Small streams don’t plan to be mighty rivers. We just move in a direction; God decides what He’ll have us become.
BOB GOFFI know that sounds so circular, but for you, what you were made to do, is different than what I was made to do.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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The way we deal with uncertainty says a lot about whether Jesus is ahead of us leading, or behind us just carrying our stuff.
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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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Do less of what you’re terrible at and more of what you’re good at. I don’t know if that sounds too simple, but it’s been working for me.
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Grace works that way. It’s a kind word from a gentle person with an impossible prayer. It’s a force sometimes transmitted best hand to hand in a dark place.
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I used to think God wouldn’t talk to me, but now I know I’m just selective with what I choose to hear.
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We won’t figure out what’s sacred in life if we settle for what’s safe.
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God finds us in the holes we dig for ourselves. We see failures; He sees foundations.
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What I’ve learned the more time I’ve spent following Jesus is that God delights in answering our impossible prayers.
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Grace means we can put the chalk away and stop keeping score!
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Love finds us where we are, not where we were.
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God keeps telling us to be not afraid, to go big
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I’m all for getting together with men and women in small groups around Scripture and letting it just wash over us, but for me, I’ve been meeting with the same ten guys for like 15 years now, but we don’t have a Bible study every Friday, we have a Bible doing.
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When you trust someone, you don’t need to know everything.
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Every time we see people as ordinary, we turn the wine back into water.
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It will be more love, not more information, that will change our hearts.
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