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.
BOB GOFFA hope that makes us brave and expels darkness with light. That’s what I want my life to be all about – full of abandon, whimsy, and in love.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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When you trust someone, you don’t need to know everything.
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The real game of Bigger and Better that Jesus is playing with us usually isn’t about money or possessions or even our hopes. It’s about our pride.
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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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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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Sometimes we ask God for help and God gives us hope, not because it’s different, but because it’s the same.
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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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What I noticed, though, is almost every time I type the word love, it gets changed to the word live…
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God made beauty so we’d know how He felt about us.
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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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We’re all amateurs when it comes to love. Don’t be too hard on each other.
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Love God. Love people. And do stuff. That’s my punch list everyday.
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God places that desire deep in our hearts because He wants it for us and it honors Him. Maybe there are times when we think a door has been closed and, instead of misinterpreting the circumstances,
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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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It’s easy to confuse a lot of activity with a purposeful life. Do what lasts; let the rest fall away.
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For those who resonate with formulas, here it is: add your whole life, your loves, your passions, and your interests together with what God said He wants us to be about, and that’s your answer.
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