God finds us in the holes we dig for ourselves. We see failures; He sees foundations.
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’m all for getting together with men and women in small groups around Scripture and letting it just wash over us, but for me, I’ve been meeting with the same ten guys for like 15 years now, but we don’t have a Bible study every Friday, we have a Bible doing.
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Day turned to night, His friends scattered and death thought it had won. But heaven just started counting to three
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Live a life of conspicuous grace and courageous resolve.
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God keeps telling us to be not afraid, to go big
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We keep asking for answers; God keeps sending us people.
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We can’t always see people’s pain; they can always feel our love.
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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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What would be the first thing I’d add back? Jesus. It sounds a little bit like a Sunday school answer, but that’s what I do. Then what’s the next thing? And I’d say, well, loving people. And then the next.
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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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Jesus won’t try to speak over the noise in our lives; love whispers so we won’t be confused about who’s doing the talking.
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Love is never stationary.
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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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When love is a theory, it’s safe, it’s free of risk. But love in the brain changes nothing.
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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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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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