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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.

Bob Goff

Every time we see people as ordinary, we turn the wine back into water.
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Ordinary People Water Wine
Stop telling people how far they have left to go. Instead tell them how far they’ve come.
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Come Left People
Stand up like a mountain; have faith like a rock; love like an avalanche
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Faith Mountain Rocks Stand
Don’t let other people decide who you are.
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Decide Let People
Grace works that way. It’s a kind word from a gentle person with an impossible prayer. It’s a force sometimes transmitted best hand to hand in a dark place.
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Dark Hands Prayer
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.
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Fighting Guy Running Somewhere
I don’t think anyone aims to be typical, really. Most people even vow to themselves some time in high school or college not to be typical. But still, they just kind of loop back to it somehow.
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College School Thinking
Live a life of conspicuous grace and courageous resolve.
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Courageous Grace Resolve
Do less of what you’re terrible at and more of what you’re good at. I don’t know if that sounds too simple, but it’s been working for me.
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Simple Sound Terrible
We all want to have a place where we can dream and escape anything that wraps steel bands around our imagination and creativity.
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Creativity Dream Imagination
I don’t think success is what we’ve made of ourselves; I think it’s what we’ve made of others.
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Made Ourselves Success Thinking
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
I used to want to fix people, but now I just want to be with them.
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People Used Want
God’s never as nervous about our future, or as concerned about our past, as we are.
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Future Nervous Our Past
We’re part of God’s much bigger plan for the whole world. Just like God’s Son arrived here, so did you. And after Jesus arrived, God whispered to all of humanity “It’s your move.
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Arrive Jesus Moving Son
Something happens when you feel ownership. You no longer act like a spectator or consumer, because you’re an owner. Faith is at its best when it’s that way too. It’s best lived when it’s owned.
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Faith Feels Ownership Way

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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