Loving people the way Jesus did, means living a life of constant interruptions. Bring it.
BOB GOFFWhat I’ve learned the more time I’ve spent following Jesus is that God delights in answering our impossible prayers.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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A hope that makes us brave and expels darkness with light. That’s what I want my life to be all about – full of abandon, whimsy, and in love.
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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 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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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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God finds us in the holes we dig for ourselves. We see failures; He sees foundations.
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Nobody turns down an invitation to the White House, but I’ve seen plenty of people turn down an invitation to fully live.
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God places that desire deep in our hearts because He wants it for us and it honors Him. Maybe there are times when we think a door has been closed and, instead of misinterpreting the circumstances,
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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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God doesn’t break things so He can fix them; He fixes broken things so He can use them.
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Don’t let other people decide who you are.
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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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Grace means we don’t need to airbrush our lives to make them look like they’re working.
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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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They loop us back to places where everyone can easily go, not necessarily where we were made to go. Living a different kind of life takes some guts and grit and a new way of seeing things.
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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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