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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.

Bob Goff

You don’t need a plan; you just need to be present.
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Needs Plans Present
The battle for our hearts is fought on the pages of our calendar.
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Battle Calendars Heart
When you trust someone, you don’t need to know everything.
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Knows Needs Something Trust
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
No book is a chapter, no chapter tells the whole story, no mistake defines who we are. Hope makes our lives page turners.
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Books Mistakes Stories
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.
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Confused Jesus Life Love
If you’re following God and haven’t lost much of what you’ve been holding on to – follow a little closer.
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Holding Littles Lost
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
Love God, love your neighbors, and do stuff!
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God Love Neighbor Stuff
But the kind of love that God created and demonstrated is a costly one because it involves sacrifice and presence. It’s a love that operates more like a sign language than being spoken outright.
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Kind Language Sacrifice Sign
The organization just said no to you. Find what it is that you were made to do and get on it! Go do what you were made to do.
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Find Made Organisation Say
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
The way we love people we disagree with is the best evidence of what we really believe.
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Believe People Way
When it feels like we need to choose between being right and being humble- pick both
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Feels Humble Needs
Do one thing that’s heroic for you today – big or small – and fear won’t define you anymore.
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Bigs Heroic Today
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
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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Jesus Month Realize School Zero
Love God. Love people. And do stuff. That’s my punch list everyday.
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Day Every People Stuff
God’s never as nervous about our future, or as concerned about our past, as we are.
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Future Nervous Our Past
I learned that fully loving and fully living are not only synonymous but the kind of life that Jesus invited us to be part of.
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Fully Invited Learn Living Part
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
We’ll fill our lives with what we cultivate the most. Plant grace by the acre.
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Acres Grace Plant
I don’t think anyone aims to be typical, really. Most people even vow to themselves some time in high school or college not to be typical. But still, they just kind of loop back to it somehow.
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College School Thinking
Cynicism is fear posing as confidence; joy is hope let off the leash.
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Cynicism Joy Posing
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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Church Fists Thinking
Being engaged is a way of doing life, a way of living and loving. It’s about going to extremes and expressing the bright hope that life offers us.
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Brave Darkness Light
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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Already Amusement Circular Park Predictability Train

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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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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