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.
BOB GOFFI used to think God wouldn’t talk to me, but now I know I’m just selective with what I choose to hear.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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He asks if we’ll give up that thing we’re so proud of, that thing we believe causes us to matter in the eyes of the world, and give it up to follow Him. He’s asking us, ‘Will you take what you think defines you, leave it behind, and let Me define who you are instead?’
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Don’t let other people decide who you are.
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No book is a chapter, no chapter tells the whole story, no mistake defines who we are. Hope makes our lives page turners.
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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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Love finds us where we are, not where we were.
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We need to wash the feet of our enemies.
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Jesus never told His friends to play it safe.
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Love doesn’t try to be efficient; when it is most extravagant, it is least wasted.
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Grace means we can put the chalk away and stop keeping score!
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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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Figure out what fuels your joy, then do lots of that
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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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We’ll fill our lives with what we cultivate the most. Plant grace by the acre.
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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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They loop us back to places where everyone can easily go, not necessarily where we were made to go. Living a different kind of life takes some guts and grit and a new way of seeing things.
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