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I know that sounds so circular, but for you, what you were made to do, is different than what I was made to do.

Bob Goff

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.
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Attitude Dream Love Something
We might be known for what we believed, but we’re certain to be remembered for what we did about it.
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Certain might Remembered
Whatever you’re aiming for, God’s better.
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Animal Better God
Simply put: love does.
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Love Put Simple
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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Delight Jesus Prayer
We keep telling God our opinions; He keeps asking us about our hearts. We’ll grow the most when we have the right conversations.
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Asking Heart Opinion
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
That’s a prank. It has no shelf life, like reassembling the principal’s car up on the roof of the gym. It’s cute and everything but there’s no shelf-life, and it can actually be kind of destructive. But a caper is different. It’s something where everybody has made it in.
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Actual Cute Destructive Everything Prank Principle
Most people need love and acceptance a lot more than they need advice.
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Acceptance Healing Motivational
Stand up like a mountain; have faith like a rock; love like an avalanche
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Faith Mountain Rocks Stand
I once heard somebody say that God had closed a door on an opportunity they had hoped for. But I’ve always wondered if when we want to do something that we know is right and good,
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Heart Opportunity Thinking
Day turned to night, His friends scattered and death thought it had won. But heaven just started counting to three
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Heaven Night Three
Something happens when you feel ownership. You no longer act like a spectator or consumer, because you’re an owner. Faith is at its best when it’s that way too. It’s best lived when it’s owned.
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Faith Feels Ownership Way
God delights in answering our impossible prayers.
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Delight Impossible Prayer
We can be the light of the world without leaving our high beams on and annoying everybody.
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Annoy Everybody Leaving Light World
Insecurity wants us to keep track of our failures; grace doesn’t even write them down.
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Grace Track Writing
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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Bible Friday Guy Men Scripture Years
It will be the people with the greatest love, not the most information, who will influence us to change.
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Greatest Information Love People
Next to grace, I bet God thinks making us need each other was one of His best ideas.
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Grace Ideas Thinking
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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Ask Attention Captures God Layering Made Richness
It will be more love, not more information, that will change our hearts.
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Heart Hearts Information Our
No book is a chapter, no chapter tells the whole story, no mistake defines who we are. Hope makes our lives page turners.
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Books Mistakes Stories
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.
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Failing Matter Succeed
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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Broken God Religious Work
I used to think JESUS motivated us with ultimatums, but now I know He pursues us in LOVE.
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Jesus Motivate Thinking
God finds us in the holes we dig for ourselves. We see failures; He sees foundations.
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Foundation God Holes Search
There’s a lot to be concerned about; there’s more to be hopeful for.
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Concerned Hopeful Lot More

I know that sounds so circular, but for you, what you were made to do, is different than what I was made to do.

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