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.
BOB GOFFWe keep asking for answers; God keeps sending us people.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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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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I used to think JESUS motivated us with ultimatums, but now I know He pursues us in LOVE.
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Not surprisingly, we’d get a lot more done too, because we wouldn’t care who’s looking or taking credit. All that energy would be funnelled into awesomeness.
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Grace means we don’t need to airbrush our lives to make them look like they’re working.
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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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I used to want to fix people, but now I just want to be with them.
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We might be known for what we believed, but we’re certain to be remembered for what we did about it.
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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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One thing I do is (and I realize this might sound nuts), every month or so, I try to take like an Etch-a-sketch [so to speak], and I clear my faith. I go to zero, clear the deck. And I start adding things back to my faith, one at a time.
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We spend a lot of energy remembering failures God spent a lot of love saying we could forget.
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Surround yourself with prompts that remind you who Jesus is.
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Fix your eyes on Jesus; it’s ok to stare.
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Insecurity wants us to keep track of our failures; grace doesn’t even write them down.
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Courage isn’t the absence of fear, it’s just deciding that fear isn’t calling the shots anymore
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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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