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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.

Bob Goff

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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Jesus Month Realize School Zero
Jesus won’t try to speak over the noise in our lives; love whispers so we won’t be confused about who’s doing the talking.
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Confused Jesus Life Love
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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College School Thinking
No book is a chapter, no chapter tells the whole story, no mistake defines who we are. Hope makes our lives page turners.
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Books Mistakes Stories
Day turned to night, His friends scattered and death thought it had won. But heaven just started counting to three
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Heaven Night Three
Selfless love is always costly; fear can’t afford it, pride doesn’t understand it and friends never forget it.
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Love Pride Selfless
God’s grace comes in all shapes, sizes, and circumstances as God continues to unfold something magnificent in me.
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Grace Shapes Size
We get to be God’s plan for the whole world by pointing people toward Him.
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God People Plan World
If you get a no from somebody, don’t say, ‘I’m going to take this as some big cosmic signal.’ No, you just got a no, deal with it. Just go to the next step.
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Bigs Next Signals Steps
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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Bible Instead Made Some Things
We determine how much influence we’ll have, when we decide how available we’ll be.
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Available Determine Influence
It will be the people with the greatest love, not the most information, who will influence us to change.
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Greatest Information Love People
God keeps telling us to be not afraid, to go big
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Afraid Bigs Telling
The shallow end of hope is usually the deep end of grace.
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Ends Grace Shallow
I used to think JESUS motivated us with ultimatums, but now I know He pursues us in LOVE.
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Jesus Motivate Thinking
Fear will give us a reason not to try; hope will give us a reason not to listen.
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Giving Reason Trying
We all want to have a place where we can dream and escape anything that wraps steel bands around our imagination and creativity.
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Creativity Dream Imagination
Love doesn’t just keep thinking about it or keep planning for it… Simply put: Love does!
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Planning Simple Thinking
Living a life fully engaged in full of whimsy and the kind of things that love does is something most people plan to do, but along the way they just kind of forget.
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Engaged Most People Things
Love God, love your neighbors, and do stuff!
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God Love Neighbor Stuff
Insecurity wants us to keep track of our failures; grace doesn’t even write them down.
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Grace Track Writing
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
It’s easy to confuse a lot of activity with a purposeful life. Do what lasts; let the rest fall away.
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Easy Fall Lasts
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
We keep asking for answers; God keeps sending us people.
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Answers Asking People
The battle for our hearts is fought on the pages of our calendar.
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Battle Calendars Heart
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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Boundaries Giving Trying

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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