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.
BOB GOFFI 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,
More Bob Goff Quotes
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When you love people like Jesus, you get messy. But messy looks good on you!
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We’ll become whoever we trust the most says we are.
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God wants us to kick it down. Or perhaps just sit outside of it long enough until somebody tells us we can come in.
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The most beautiful scenery in the world is when our friends come into view.
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Great love leaves little doubt.
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I used to think JESUS motivated us with ultimatums, but now I know He pursues us in LOVE.
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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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We can’t always see people’s pain; they can always feel our love.
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Whimsy doesn’t care if you are the driver or the passenger; all that matters is that you are on your way.
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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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God made beauty so we’d know how He felt about us.
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God’s never as nervous about our future, or as concerned about our past, as we are.
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The battle for our hearts is fought on the pages of our calendar.
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Don’t let not knowing how it’ll end keep you from beginning. Uncertainty chases us out into the open where God is waiting.
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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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We plant sod where God wants 2 plant seed. He’s more interested in growing our character than having us look finished.
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It will be more love, not more information, that will change our hearts.
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Love finds us where we are, not where we were.
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Being engaged is a way of doing life, a way of living and loving. It’s about going to extremes and expressing the bright hope that life offers us.
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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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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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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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What Jesus said we could do is leave typical behind.
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We need to make our faith our very own love story.
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Love God. Love people. And do stuff. That’s my punch list everyday.
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I don’t know every step I’m supposed to take. I think Jesus just wants me to take the next step.
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