Grace means we don’t need to airbrush our lives to make them look like they’re working.
BOB GOFFI don’t know every step I’m supposed to take. I think Jesus just wants me to take the next step.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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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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Living a life of following Christ means constant interruptions.
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Nobody turns down an invitation to the White House, but I’ve seen plenty of people turn down an invitation to fully live.
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Loving people the way Jesus did, means living a life of constant interruptions. Bring it.
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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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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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That’s a prank. It has no shelf life, like reassembling the principal’s car up on the roof of the gym. It’s cute and everything but there’s no shelf-life, and it can actually be kind of destructive. But a caper is different. It’s something where everybody has made it in.
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You can quit anything on a Thursday.
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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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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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The teachers I’ve learned the most from, didn’t think they were teaching me; they just thought we were friends.
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A 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.
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Words people say not only have a shelf life but have the ability to shape life.
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Jesus is nuts about kids. He doesn’t seem to think much of lawyers which really lands close to home, but He’s nuts about kids and loves justice.
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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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