Courage isn’t the absence of fear, it’s just deciding that fear isn’t calling the shots anymore
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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Most people need love and acceptance a lot more than they need advice.
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Loving people the way Jesus did, means living a life of constant interruptions. Bring it.
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We’re all amateurs when it comes to love. Don’t be too hard on each other.
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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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…we need to stop plotting the course and instead just land the plane on our plans to make a difference by getting to the “do” part of faith.
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I learned that fully loving and fully living are not only synonymous but the kind of life that Jesus invited us to be part of.
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Like the circular rails of a train at an amusement park, the scripts we know offer a brand of security, of predictability, of safety for us. But the problem is, they only take us where we’ve already been.
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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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Great love leaves little doubt.
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We need to make our faith our very own love story.
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Love doesn’t try to be efficient; when it is most extravagant, it is least wasted.
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But instead of spending all of our time having Bible studies about what we were made to do, go do stuff and you’ll figure out what you were made to do, because you’ll be great at some things and you’ll be terrible at others.
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Selfless love is always costly; fear can’t afford it, pride doesn’t understand it and friends never forget it.
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We’ll become whoever we trust the most says we are.
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I don’t think anyone aims to be typical, really. Most people even vow to themselves some time in high school or college not to be typical. But still, they just kind of loop back to it somehow.
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