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.
BOB GOFFWhat distracts us will begin to define us. We don’t need to swing at every pitch.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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Grace draws a circle around everyone and says they’re in.
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I never know what all of the steps are but I do know the next step.
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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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We get to be God’s plan for the whole world by pointing people toward Him.
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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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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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I used to think God wouldn’t talk to me, but now I know I’m just selective with what I choose to hear.
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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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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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What would be the first thing I’d add back? Jesus. It sounds a little bit like a Sunday school answer, but that’s what I do. Then what’s the next thing? And I’d say, well, loving people. And then the next.
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Love is never stationary.
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Live a life of conspicuous grace and courageous resolve.
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The real game of Bigger and Better that Jesus is playing with us usually isn’t about money or possessions or even our hopes. It’s about our pride.
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Every time we see people as ordinary, we turn the wine back into water.
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Words people say not only have a shelf life but have the ability to shape life.
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