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.
BOB GOFFLive your life like you’re exactly who Jesus thinks you are.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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Don’t let other people decide who you are.
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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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Here’s our job as believers, love everybody ALWAYS!
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It will be the people with the greatest love, not the most information, who will influence us to change.
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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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You can quit anything on a Thursday.
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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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We need to make our faith our very own love story.
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When you love people like Jesus, you get messy. But messy looks good on you!
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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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There’s a lot to be concerned about; there’s more to be hopeful for.
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What distracts us will begin to define us. We don’t need to swing at every pitch.
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I know that sounds so circular, but for you, what you were made to do, is different than what I was made to do.
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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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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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