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We keep asking for answers; God keeps sending us people.

Bob Goff

Courage doesn’t mean we’re not afraid anymore, it just means our actions aren’t controlled by our doubts.
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Action Doubt Mean
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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Everyone Girl Living Necessarily Seeing Things
The most beautiful scenery in the world is when our friends come into view.
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Beautiful Views World
Every time we see people as ordinary, we turn the wine back into water.
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Ordinary People Water Wine
We spend a lot of energy remembering failures God spent a lot of love saying we could forget.
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Energy Forget Remember
What distracts us will begin to define us. We don’t need to swing at every pitch.
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Define Needs Pitch Swings
People who want to manipulate you will fear your joy, because it’s not easily controlled.
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Joy People Want
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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Adventure Soul Together
Stand up like a mountain; have faith like a rock; love like an avalanche
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Faith Mountain Rocks Stand
Love doesn’t just keep thinking about it or keep planning for it… Simply put: Love does!
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Planning Simple 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
We won’t be distracted by comparison if we’re captivated with purpose.
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Captivated Distracted Purpose
The way we deal with uncertainty says a lot about whether Jesus is ahead of us leading, or behind us just carrying our stuff.
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Carrying Jesus Stuff Way
We’ll never honor Christ if we forget how to honor each other.
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Christ Forget Honor
What Jesus said we could do is leave typical behind.
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Jesus Said Typical
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
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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Already Amusement Circular Park Predictability Train
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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Attitude Dream Love Something
I used to think I could learn about Jesus by studying Him, but now I know Jesus doesn’t want stalkers.
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Jesus Thinking Want
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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Church Fists Thinking
There’s a lot to be concerned about; there’s more to be hopeful for.
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Concerned Hopeful Lot More
We can be the light of the world without leaving our high beams on and annoying everybody.
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Annoy Everybody Leaving Light World
God finds us in the holes we dig for ourselves. We see failures; He sees foundations.
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Foundation God Holes Search
It’s easy to confuse a lot of activity with a purposeful life. Do what lasts; let the rest fall away.
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Easy Fall Lasts
God makes confetti out of our titles and accomplishments to celebrate the poor and the humble.
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Accomplishment Humble Titles
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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Bible Instead Made Some Things
Here’s our job as believers, love everybody ALWAYS!
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Believer Everybody Jobs

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