God asks what it is He’s made us to love, what it is that captures our attention, what feeds that deep indescribable need of our souls to experience the richness of the world He made. And then, leaning over us, He whispers, “Let’s go do that together.
BOB GOFFGod made beauty so we’d know how He felt about us.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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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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Love doesn’t try to be efficient; when it is most extravagant, it is least wasted.
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See people for who they’re becoming. Not who they were.
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Living a life of following Christ means constant interruptions.
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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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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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Stand up like a mountain; have faith like a rock; love like an avalanche
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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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God delights in answering our impossible prayers.
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We get to be God’s plan for the whole world by pointing people toward Him.
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God keeps telling us to be not afraid, to go big
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Words people say not only have a shelf life but have the ability to shape life.
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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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God finds us in the holes we dig for ourselves. We see failures; He sees foundations.
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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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When you trust someone, you don’t need to know everything.
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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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God makes confetti out of our titles and accomplishments to celebrate the poor and the humble.
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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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Grace means we can put the chalk away and stop keeping score!
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We won’t be distracted by comparison if we’re captivated with purpose.
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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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No book is a chapter, no chapter tells the whole story, no mistake defines who we are. Hope makes our lives page turners.
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Love God, love your neighbors, and do stuff!
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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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Jesus is nuts about kids. He doesn’t seem to think much of lawyers which really lands close to home, but He’s nuts about kids and loves justice.
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