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.
BOB GOFFCynicism is fear posing as confidence; joy is hope let off the leash.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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Love is never stationary.
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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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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 love is a theory, it’s safe, it’s free of risk. But love in the brain changes nothing.
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I used to want to fix people, but now I just want to be with them.
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We keep asking for answers; God keeps sending us people.
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God’s never as nervous about our future, or as concerned about our past, as we are.
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Living a life of following Christ means constant interruptions.
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We won’t figure out what’s sacred in life if we settle for what’s safe.
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The way we love people we disagree with is the best evidence of what we really believe.
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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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We get to be God’s plan for the whole world by pointing people toward Him.
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Whatever you’re aiming for, God’s better.
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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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God made beauty so we’d know how He felt about us.
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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 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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We need to wash the feet of our enemies.
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…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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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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Don’t let other people decide who you are.
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Jesus never told His friends to play it safe.
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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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When you trust someone, you don’t need to know everything.
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Grace means we don’t need to airbrush our lives to make them look like they’re working.
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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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