Surround yourself with prompts that remind you who Jesus is.
BOB GOFFWhimsy doesn’t care if you are the driver or the passenger; all that matters is that you are on your way.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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Stop telling people how far they have left to go. Instead tell them how far they’ve come.
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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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I used to think JESUS motivated us with ultimatums, but now I know He pursues us in LOVE.
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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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Day turned to night, His friends scattered and death thought it had won. But heaven just started counting to three
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That’s one of those things about love. It always assumes it can find a way to express itself.
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It has always seemed to me that broken things, just like broken people, get used more; it’s probably because God has more pieces to work with.
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We spend a lot of energy remembering failures God spent a lot of love saying we could forget.
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We won’t figure out what’s sacred in life if we settle for what’s safe.
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Don’t let other people decide who you are.
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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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I used to be afraid of failing at something that really mattered to me, but now I’m more afraid of succeeding at things that don’t matter.
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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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But the kind of love that God created and demonstrated is a costly one because it involves sacrifice and presence. It’s a love that operates more like a sign language than being spoken outright.
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What I noticed, though, is almost every time I type the word love, it gets changed to the word live…
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