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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.

Bob Goff

Fear will give us a reason not to try; hope will give us a reason not to listen.
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Giving Reason Trying
Selfless love is always costly; fear can’t afford it, pride doesn’t understand it and friends never forget it.
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Love Pride Selfless
Living a life fully engaged in 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.
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Engaged Most People Things
What distracts us will begin to define us. We don’t need to swing at every pitch.
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Define Needs Pitch Swings
We’ll fill our lives with what we cultivate the most. Plant grace by the acre.
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Acres Grace Plant
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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Failing Matter Succeed
We need to wash the feet of our enemies.
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Enemy Feet Needs
Not surprisingly, we’d get a lot more done too, because we wouldn’t care who’s looking or taking credit. All that energy would be funnelled into awesomeness.
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Awesomeness Everyone Somehow Surprise
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
The shallow end of hope is usually the deep end of grace.
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Ends Grace Shallow
God keeps telling us to be not afraid, to go big
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Afraid Bigs Telling
What I noticed, though, is almost every time I type the word love, it gets changed to the word live…
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Change Jesus Kind Type
I never know what all of the steps are but I do know the next step.
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Know never Next Steps
I used to think JESUS motivated us with ultimatums, but now I know He pursues us in LOVE.
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Jesus Motivate Thinking
Most of us have all the information we need. What we need is more passion.
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Information Needs Passion
Stop telling people how far they have left to go. Instead tell them how far they’ve come.
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Come Left People
If you get a no from somebody, don’t say, ‘I’m going to take this as some big cosmic signal.’ No, you just got a no, deal with it. Just go to the next step.
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Bigs Next Signals Steps
Don’t let other people decide who you are.
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Decide Let People
It will be more love, not more information, that will change our hearts.
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Heart Hearts Information Our
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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House People White
The way we deal with uncertainty says a lot about whether Jesus is ahead of us leading, or behind us just carrying our stuff.
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Carrying Jesus Stuff Way
Day turned to night, His friends scattered and death thought it had won. But heaven just started counting to three
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Heaven Night Three
I used to think life could be shared with anyone, but now I know choosing the right people is pretty important.
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Important People Thinking
God asks what it is He’s made us to love, what it is that captures our attention, what feeds that deep indescribable need of our souls to experience the richness of the world He made. And then, leaning over us, He whispers, “Let’s go do that together.
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Ask Attention Captures God Layering Made Richness
Grace means we can put the chalk away and stop keeping score!
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Chalk Grace Mean
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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Different Giving Helping
I don’t think success is what we’ve made of ourselves; I think it’s what we’ve made of others.
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Made Ourselves Success Thinking

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