I used to be afraid of failing at something that really mattered to me, but now I’m more afraid of succeeding at things that don’t matter.
BOB GOFFThe world will figure out what we really believe, by watching what we actually do.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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I used to think God guided us by opening and closing doors, but now I know sometimes God wants us to kick some doors down.
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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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Courage isn’t the absence of fear, it’s just deciding that fear isn’t calling the shots anymore
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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’m all for getting together with men and women in small groups around Scripture and letting it just wash over us, but for me, I’ve been meeting with the same ten guys for like 15 years now, but we don’t have a Bible study every Friday, we have a Bible doing.
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Jesus won’t try to speak over the noise in our lives; love whispers so we won’t be confused about who’s doing the talking.
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Loving people the way Jesus did, means living a life of constant interruptions. Bring it.
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When it feels like we need to choose between being right and being humble- pick both
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Love finds us where we are, not where we were.
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Don’t let other people decide who you are.
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Living a life fully engaged in 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.
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I used to want to fix people, but now I just want to be with them.
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Don’t let not knowing how it’ll end keep you from beginning. Uncertainty chases us out into the open where God is waiting.
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That’s a prank. It has no shelf life, like reassembling the principal’s car up on the roof of the gym. It’s cute and everything but there’s no shelf-life, and it can actually be kind of destructive. But a caper is different. It’s something where everybody has made it in.
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Great love leaves little doubt.
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