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Grace means we don’t need to airbrush our lives to make them look like they’re working.

Bob Goff

We won’t be like Jesus if it’s more important to us to be like each other. God doesn’t compare what he creates.
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Compare Important Jesus
We won’t be distracted by comparison if we’re captivated with purpose.
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Captivated Distracted Purpose
Next to grace, I bet God thinks making us need each other was one of His best ideas.
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Grace Ideas Thinking
That’s what love does – it pursues blindly, unflinchingly, and without end. When you go after something you love, you’ll do anything it takes to get it, even if it costs everything.
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Anything Cost Love You Pursue
The battle for our hearts is fought on the pages of our calendar.
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Battle Calendars Heart
Jesus never told His friends to play it safe.
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Friends Jesus Play Safe
The way we treat people we disagree with most is a report card on what we’ve learned about love.
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Cards People Way
God made beauty so we’d know how He felt about us.
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Felt Knows Made
I used to think God wouldn’t talk to me, but now I know I’m just selective with what I choose to hear.
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Choose Talk Thinking Used
Simply put: love does.
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Love Put Simple
God finds us in the holes we dig for ourselves. We see failures; He sees foundations.
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Foundation God Holes Search
Loving people the way Jesus did, means living a life of constant interruptions. Bring it.
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Jesus Mean People
I know that sounds so circular, but for you, what you were made to do, is different than what I was made to do.
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Different Sound Stuff
Grace means we can put the chalk away and stop keeping score!
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Chalk Grace Mean
I used to think you had to be special for God to use you, but now I know you simply need to say yes.
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God Religious Thinking
Love God. Love people. And do stuff. That’s my punch list everyday.
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Day Every People Stuff
Courage isn’t the absence of fear, it’s just deciding that fear isn’t calling the shots anymore
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Absence Calling Shots
Do what lasts, get around to everything else.
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Around Everything Lasts
When it feels like we need to choose between being right and being humble- pick both
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Feels Humble Needs
…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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Differences Land Making Remember
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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College School Thinking
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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Give Up Jesus Pride Real
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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Circumstances Close God Instead
Live your life like you’re exactly who Jesus thinks you are.
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Jesus Life Live Thinking
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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Jesus Next Step Thinking
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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Enough God Perhaps Somebody Tells Wants
The shallow end of hope is usually the deep end of grace.
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Ends Grace Shallow

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