Like the circular rails of a train at an amusement park, the scripts we know offer a brand of security, of predictability, of safety for us. But the problem is, they only take us where we’ve already been.
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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When love is a theory, it’s safe, it’s free of risk. But love in the brain changes nothing.
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Selfless love is always costly; fear can’t afford it, pride doesn’t understand it and friends never forget it.
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I used to hope the things I did would work; now I hope they last.
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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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Love has the kind of power criticism only wishes it had.
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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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When you trust someone, you don’t need to know everything.
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I never know what all of the steps are but I do know the next step.
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That’s what love does – it pursues blindly, unflinchingly, and without end. When you go after something you love, you’ll do anything it takes to get it, even if it costs everything.
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Every time we see people as ordinary, we turn the wine back into water.
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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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I used to think God guided us by opening and closing doors, but now I know sometimes God wants us to kick some doors down.
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I’m all for getting together with men and women in small groups around Scripture and letting it just wash over us, but for me, I’ve been meeting with the same ten guys for like 15 years now, but we don’t have a Bible study every Friday, we have a Bible doing.
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People who want to manipulate you will fear your joy, because it’s not easily controlled.
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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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Fix your eyes on Jesus; it’s ok to stare.
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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 can’t always see people’s pain; they can always feel our love.
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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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God’s never as nervous about our future, or as concerned about our past, as we are.
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God keeps telling us to be not afraid, to go big
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I don’t know every step I’m supposed to take. I think Jesus just wants me to take the next step.
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What distracts us will begin to define us. We don’t need to swing at every pitch.
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That’s one of those things about love. It always assumes it can find a way to express itself.
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The battle for our hearts is fought on the pages of our calendar.
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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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