We need to make our faith our very own love story.
BOB GOFFSometimes we ask God for help and God gives us hope, not because it’s different, but because it’s the same.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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I know that sounds so circular, but for you, what you were made to do, is different than what I was made to do.
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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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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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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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Love God. Love people. And do stuff. That’s my punch list everyday.
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I used to think God guided us by opening and closing doors, but now I know sometimes God wants us to kick some doors down.
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We can be the light of the world without leaving our high beams on and annoying everybody.
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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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We keep asking for answers; God keeps sending us people.
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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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Love God, love your neighbors, and do stuff!
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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.
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God doesn’t break things so He can fix them; He fixes broken things so He can use them.
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Grace draws a circle around everyone and says they’re in.
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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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