I used to think God guided us by opening and closing doors, but now I know sometimes God wants us to kick some doors down.
BOB GOFFLive your life like you’re exactly who Jesus thinks you are.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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We’ll never honor Christ if we forget how to honor each other.
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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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Don’t let other people decide who you are.
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I used to think God wouldn’t talk to me, but now I know I’m just selective with what I choose to hear.
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God delights in answering our impossible prayers.
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You don’t need a plan; you just need to be present.
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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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Don’t let not knowing how it’ll end keep you from beginning. Uncertainty chases us out into the open where God is waiting.
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People who want to manipulate you will fear your joy, because it’s not easily controlled.
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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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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 used to want to fix people, but now I just want to be with them.
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We’ll become whoever we trust the most says we are.
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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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Insecurity wants us to keep track of our failures; grace doesn’t even write them down.
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