Courage doesn’t mean we’re not afraid anymore, it just means our actions aren’t controlled by our doubts.
BOB GOFFWhatever you’re aiming for, God’s better.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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Here’s our job as believers, love everybody ALWAYS!
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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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Love like there’s no tomorrow; live like there’s no yesterday. We’re forgiven; now go love people like we believe it
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Being engaged is a way of doing life, a way of living and loving. It’s about going to extremes and expressing the bright hope that life offers us.
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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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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 spend a lot of energy remembering failures God spent a lot of love saying we could forget.
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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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Jesus never told His friends to play it safe.
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I don’t think anyone aims to be typical, really. Most people even vow to themselves some time in high school or college not to be typical. But still, they just kind of loop back to it somehow.
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Grace means we can put the chalk away and stop keeping score!
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I once heard somebody say that God had closed a door on an opportunity they had hoped for. But I’ve always wondered if when we want to do something that we know is right and good,
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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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When it feels like we need to choose between being right and being humble- pick both
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The world will figure out what we really believe, by watching what we actually do.
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