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.
BOB GOFFBeing 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.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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The way we love people we disagree with is the best evidence of what we really believe.
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Loving people the way Jesus did, means living a life of constant interruptions. Bring it.
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Next to grace, I bet God thinks making us need each other was one of His best ideas.
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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’ll fill our lives with what we cultivate the most. Plant grace by the acre.
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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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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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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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If we only do what we’re familiar with, we might miss what we’ve been made for.
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Do one thing that’s heroic for you today – big or small – and fear won’t define you anymore.
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Surround yourself with prompts that remind you who Jesus is.
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The most beautiful scenery in the world is when our friends come into view.
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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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I used to think JESUS motivated us with ultimatums, but now I know He pursues us in LOVE.
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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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