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Words people say not only have a shelf life but have the ability to shape life.

Bob Goff

It’s easy to confuse a lot of activity with a purposeful life. Do what lasts; let the rest fall away.
BOB GOFF

Easy Fall Lasts
Love God, love your neighbors, and do stuff!
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God Love Neighbor Stuff
Most of us have all the information we need. What we need is more passion.
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Information Needs Passion
When you are in high school, you don’t give much thought to what you can’t do. For most people, that gets learned later, and for still fewer, gets unlearned for the rest of life.
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Giving Life Rest School
That’s what love does – it pursues blindly, unflinchingly, and without end. When you go after something you love, you’ll do anything it takes to get it, even if it costs everything.
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Anything Cost Love You Pursue
We spend a lot of energy remembering failures God spent a lot of love saying we could forget.
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Energy Forget Remember
We plant sod where God wants 2 plant seed. He’s more interested in growing our character than having us look finished.
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Character Growing Looks
When you love people like Jesus, you get messy. But messy looks good on you!
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Jesus Looks People Typical
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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Bible Instead Made Some Things
Something happens when you feel ownership. You no longer act like a spectator or consumer, because you’re an owner. Faith is at its best when it’s that way too. It’s best lived when it’s owned.
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Faith Feels Ownership Way
God made beauty so we’d know how He felt about us.
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Felt Knows Made
Don’t let other people decide who you are.
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Decide Let People
There’s a lot to be concerned about; there’s more to be hopeful for.
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Concerned Hopeful Lot More
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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Fighting Guy Running Somewhere
Figure out what fuels your joy, then do lots of that
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Figures Fuel Joy
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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Confused Jesus Life Love

Words people say not only have a shelf life but have the ability to shape life.

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