But the kind of love that God created and demonstrated is a costly one because it involves sacrifice and presence. It’s a love that operates more like a sign language than being spoken outright.
BOB GOFFWe keep asking for answers; God keeps sending us people.
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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See people for who they’re becoming. Not who they were.
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We’ll fill our lives with what we cultivate the most. Plant grace by the acre.
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I think of the church as this bride of Christ, who is incredibly capable of doing amazing things. And so where we see injustice, we come, not with fists clenched but with palms up.
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For those who resonate with formulas, here it is: add your whole life, your loves, your passions, and your interests together with what God said He wants us to be about, and that’s your answer.
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Insecurity wants us to keep track of our failures; grace doesn’t even write them down.
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Fix your eyes on Jesus; it’s ok to stare.
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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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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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It has always seemed to me that broken things, just like broken people, get used more; it’s probably because God has more pieces to work with.
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Grace draws a circle around everyone and says they’re in.
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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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Every day God invites us on the same kind of adventure. It’s not a trip where He sends us a rigid itinerary, He simply invites us.
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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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What I noticed, though, is almost every time I type the word love, it gets changed to the word live…
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