Next to grace, I bet God thinks making us need each other was one of His best ideas.
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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When you trust someone, you don’t need to know everything.
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Do one thing that’s heroic for you today – big or small – and fear won’t define you anymore.
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Fix your eyes on Jesus; it’s ok to stare.
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Most of us have all the information we need. What we need is more passion.
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Simply put: love does.
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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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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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When you are in high school, you don’t give much thought to what you can’t do. For most people, that gets learned later, and for still fewer, gets unlearned for the rest of life.
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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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The most beautiful scenery in the world is when our friends come into view.
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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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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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Love doesn’t try to be efficient; when it is most extravagant, it is least wasted.
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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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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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