I used to think God wouldn’t talk to me, but now I know I’m just selective with what I choose to hear.
BOB GOFFStand up like a mountain; have faith like a rock; love like an avalanche
More Bob Goff Quotes
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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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…we need to stop plotting the course and instead just land the plane on our plans to make a difference by getting to the “do” part of faith.
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I don’t know every step I’m supposed to take. I think Jesus just wants me to take the next step.
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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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I used to hope the things I did would work; now I hope they last.
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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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You can quit anything on a Thursday.
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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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The way we deal with uncertainty says a lot about whether Jesus is ahead of us leading, or behind us just carrying our stuff.
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Do less of what you’re terrible at and more of what you’re good at. I don’t know if that sounds too simple, but it’s been working for me.
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We need to make our faith our very own love story.
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Whimsy doesn’t care if you are the driver or the passenger; all that matters is that you are on your way.
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God delights in answering our impossible prayers.
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Jesus lets us be real with our life and our faith.
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We plant sod where God wants 2 plant seed. He’s more interested in growing our character than having us look finished.
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God’s grace comes in all shapes, sizes, and circumstances as God continues to unfold something magnificent in me.
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When you love people like Jesus, you get messy. But messy looks good on you!
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You don’t need a plan; you just need to be present.
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You don’t want to pick a fight with just the guy at the deli, [you want to] pick a fight somewhere in the world and just run towards it. Run because the fight is going to go on without you if you miss it.
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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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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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Love doesn’t try to be efficient; when it is most extravagant, it is least wasted.
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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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We can’t always see people’s pain; they can always feel our love.
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Not surprisingly, we’d get a lot more done too, because we wouldn’t care who’s looking or taking credit. All that energy would be funnelled into awesomeness.
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Don’t let not knowing how it’ll end keep you from beginning. Uncertainty chases us out into the open where God is waiting.
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