God makes confetti out of our titles and accomplishments to celebrate the poor and the humble.
BOB GOFFGrace means we don’t need to airbrush our lives to make them look like they’re working.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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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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That’s one of those things about love. It always assumes it can find a way to express itself.
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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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People who want to manipulate you will fear your joy, because it’s not easily controlled.
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The real game of Bigger and Better that Jesus is playing with us usually isn’t about money or possessions or even our hopes. It’s about our pride.
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I think of the church as this bride of Christ, who is incredibly capable of doing amazing things. And so where we see injustice, we come, not with fists clenched but with palms up.
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Courage doesn’t mean we’re not afraid anymore, it just means our actions aren’t controlled by our doubts.
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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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It will be more love, not more information, that will change our hearts.
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Every day God invites us on the same kind of adventure. It’s not a trip where He sends us a rigid itinerary, He simply invites us.
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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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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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When love is a theory, it’s safe, it’s free of risk. But love in the brain changes nothing.
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God made beauty so we’d know how He felt about us.
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I used to think life could be shared with anyone, but now I know choosing the right people is pretty important.
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