Jesus never told His friends to play it safe.
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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The teachers I’ve learned the most from, didn’t think they were teaching me; they just thought we were friends.
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Courage isn’t the absence of fear, it’s just deciding that fear isn’t calling the shots anymore
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Great love leaves little doubt.
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You don’t want to pick a fight with just the guy at the deli, [you want to] pick a fight somewhere in the world and just run towards it. Run because the fight is going to go on without you if you miss it.
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Love doesn’t just keep thinking about it or keep planning for it… Simply put: Love does!
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The world will figure out what we really believe, by watching what we actually do.
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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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Courage doesn’t mean we’re not afraid anymore, it just means our actions aren’t controlled by our doubts.
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When you love people like Jesus, you get messy. But messy looks good on you!
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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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God doesn’t break things so He can fix them; He fixes broken things so He can use them.
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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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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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Fear will give us a reason not to try; hope will give us a reason not to listen.
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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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