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Love has the kind of power criticism only wishes it had.

Bob Goff

I don’t think success is what we’ve made of ourselves; I think it’s what we’ve made of others.
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Made Ourselves Success Thinking
We need to make our faith our very own love story.
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Love Needs Stories Story
We’ll fill our lives with what we cultivate the most. Plant grace by the acre.
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Acres Grace Plant
We won’t be like Jesus if it’s more important to us to be like each other. God doesn’t compare what he creates.
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Compare Important Jesus
Great love leaves little doubt.
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Doubt Great Littles Love
Love has the kind of power criticism only wishes it had.
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Criticism Kind Wish
He asks if we’ll give up that thing we’re so proud of, that thing we believe causes us to matter in the eyes of the world, and give it up to follow Him. He’s asking us, ‘Will you take what you think defines you, leave it behind, and let Me define who you are instead?’
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Ask Cause Define Eyes Proud Thing
Grace means we don’t need to airbrush our lives to make them look like they’re working.
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Grace Mean Needs
We keep telling God our opinions; He keeps asking us about our hearts. We’ll grow the most when we have the right conversations.
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Asking Heart Opinion
Every time we see people as ordinary, we turn the wine back into water.
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Ordinary People Water Wine
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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Kind Language Sacrifice Sign
God places that desire deep in our hearts because He wants it for us and it honors Him. Maybe there are times when we think a door has been closed and, instead of misinterpreting the circumstances,
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Circumstances Close God Instead
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
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
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
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.
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Already Amusement Circular Park Predictability Train

Love has the kind of power criticism only wishes it had.

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