We need to make our faith our very own love story.
BOB GOFFSelfless love is always costly; fear can’t afford it, pride doesn’t understand it and friends never forget it.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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Small streams don’t plan to be mighty rivers. We just move in a direction; God decides what He’ll have us become.
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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.
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I used to want to fix people, but now I just want to be with them.
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Most of us have all the information we need. What we need is more passion.
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Love doesn’t just keep thinking about it or keep planning for it… Simply put: Love does!
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We’re all amateurs when it comes to love. Don’t be too hard on each other.
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Insecurity wants us to keep track of our failures; grace doesn’t even write them down.
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I used to think you had to be special for God to use you, but now I know you simply need to say yes.
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God wants us to kick it down. Or perhaps just sit outside of it long enough until somebody tells us we can come in.
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When you are in high school, you don’t give much thought to what you can’t do. For most people, that gets learned later, and for still fewer, gets unlearned for the rest of life.
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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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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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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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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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Do one thing that’s heroic for you today – big or small – and fear won’t define you anymore.
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