I used to hope the things I did would work; now I hope they last.
BOB GOFFSmall streams don’t plan to be mighty rivers. We just move in a direction; God decides what He’ll have us become.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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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.
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When love is a theory, it’s safe, it’s free of risk. But love in the brain changes nothing.
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God delights in answering our impossible prayers.
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The battle for our hearts is fought on the pages of our calendar.
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We need to wash the feet of our enemies.
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Fix your eyes on Jesus; it’s ok to stare.
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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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Love doesn’t just keep thinking about it or keep planning for it… Simply put: Love does!
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Sometimes we ask God for help and God gives us hope, not because it’s different, but because it’s the same.
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That’s one of the things about love. It doesn’t recognize boundaries and never obeys the rules we try to give it.
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We determine how much influence we’ll have, when we decide how available we’ll be.
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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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Jesus is nuts about kids. He doesn’t seem to think much of lawyers which really lands close to home, but He’s nuts about kids and loves justice.
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Love has the kind of power criticism only wishes it had.
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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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You can quit anything on a Thursday.
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The organization just said no to you. Find what it is that you were made to do and get on it! Go do what you were made to do.
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When it feels like we need to choose between being right and being humble- pick both
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Great love leaves little doubt.
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Most people need love and acceptance a lot more than they need advice.
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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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Simply put: love does.
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God made beauty so we’d know how He felt about us.
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Don’t let other people decide who you are.
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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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We won’t be like Jesus if it’s more important to us to be like each other. God doesn’t compare what he creates.
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