Stop telling people how far they have left to go. Instead tell them how far they’ve come.
BOB GOFFCynicism is fear posing as confidence; joy is hope let off the leash.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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God finds us in the holes we dig for ourselves. We see failures; He sees foundations.
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The way we treat people we disagree with most is a report card on what we’ve learned about love.
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I used to want to fix people, but now I just want to be with them.
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Love is never stationary.
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Live your life like you’re exactly who Jesus thinks you are.
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Fix your eyes on Jesus; it’s ok to stare.
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It will be the people with the greatest love, not the most information, who will influence us to change.
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We’ll never honor Christ if we forget how to honor each other.
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Loving people the way Jesus did, means living a life of constant interruptions. Bring it.
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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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When it feels like we need to choose between being right and being humble- pick both
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People who want to manipulate you will fear your joy, because it’s not easily controlled.
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The shallow end of hope is usually the deep end of grace.
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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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If we only do what we’re familiar with, we might miss what we’ve been made for.
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