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Cynicism is fear posing as confidence; joy is hope let off the leash.

Bob Goff

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
Love is never stationary.
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Find Love Stationary
The way we treat people we disagree with most is a report card on what we’ve learned about love.
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Cards People Way
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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Actual Cute Destructive Everything Prank Principle
When love is a theory, it’s safe, it’s free of risk. But love in the brain changes nothing.
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Brain Love Risk
I used to want to fix people, but now I just want to be with them.
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People Used Want
We keep asking for answers; God keeps sending us people.
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Answers Asking People
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
Living a life of following Christ means constant interruptions.
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Christ Constant Following Mean
We won’t figure out what’s sacred in life if we settle for what’s safe.
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Sacred Safe Settling
The way we love people we disagree with is the best evidence of what we really believe.
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Believe People Way
We plant sod where God wants 2 plant seed. He’s more interested in growing our character than having us look finished.
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Character Growing Looks
We get to be God’s plan for the whole world by pointing people toward Him.
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God People Plan World
Whatever you’re aiming for, God’s better.
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Animal Better God
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
God made beauty so we’d know how He felt about us.
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Felt Knows Made
I used to think you had to be special for God to use you, but now I know you simply need to say yes.
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God Religious Thinking
God asks what it is He’s made us to love, what it is that captures our attention, what feeds that deep indescribable need of our souls to experience the richness of the world He made. And then, leaning over us, He whispers, “Let’s go do that together.
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Ask Attention Captures God Layering Made Richness
We need to wash the feet of our enemies.
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Enemy Feet Needs
…we need to stop plotting the course and instead just land the plane on our plans to make a difference by getting to the “do” part of faith.
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Differences Land Making Remember
The teachers I’ve learned the most from, didn’t think they were teaching me; they just thought we were friends.
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Teacher Teaching Thinking
Don’t let other people decide who you are.
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Decide Let People
Jesus never told His friends to play it safe.
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Friends Jesus Play Safe
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.
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Failing Matter Succeed
When you trust someone, you don’t need to know everything.
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Knows Needs Something Trust
Grace means we don’t need to airbrush our lives to make them look like they’re working.
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Grace Mean Needs
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

Cynicism is fear posing as confidence; joy is hope let off the leash.

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