I used to want to fix people, but now I just want to be with them.
BOB GOFFGod made beauty so we’d know how He felt about us.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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We’re part of God’s much bigger plan for the whole world. Just like God’s Son arrived here, so did you. And after Jesus arrived, God whispered to all of humanity “It’s your move.
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What I’ve learned the more time I’ve spent following Jesus is that God delights in answering our impossible prayers.
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I think of the church as this bride of Christ, who is incredibly capable of doing amazing things. And so where we see injustice, we come, not with fists clenched but with palms up.
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God keeps telling us to be not afraid, to go big
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Small streams don’t plan to be mighty rivers. We just move in a direction; God decides what He’ll have us become.
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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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See people for who they’re becoming. Not who they were.
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Grace means we don’t need to airbrush our lives to make them look like they’re working.
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Love finds us where we are, not where we were.
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Selfless love is always costly; fear can’t afford it, pride doesn’t understand it and friends never forget it.
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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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Living a life fully engaged and 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. Their dreams become one of those “we’ll go there next time” deferrals.
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They loop us back to places where everyone can easily go, not necessarily where we were made to go. Living a different kind of life takes some guts and grit and a new way of seeing things.
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We might be known for what we believed, but we’re certain to be remembered for what we did about it.
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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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