What distracts us will begin to define us. We don’t need to swing at every pitch.
BOB GOFFThe battle for our hearts is fought on the pages of our calendar.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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God made beauty so we’d know how He felt about us.
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Grace works that way. It’s a kind word from a gentle person with an impossible prayer. It’s a force sometimes transmitted best hand to hand in a dark place.
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Fear will give us a reason not to try; hope will give us a reason not to listen.
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Every time we see people as ordinary, we turn the wine back into water.
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We keep telling God our opinions; He keeps asking us about our hearts. We’ll grow the most when we have the right conversations.
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Jesus never told His friends to play it safe.
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The shallow end of hope is usually the deep end of grace.
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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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We won’t figure out what’s sacred in life if we settle for what’s safe.
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Stop doing what you’re able to do and figure out what you were made to do – then do lots of that.
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Courage doesn’t mean we’re not afraid anymore, it just means our actions aren’t controlled by our doubts.
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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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I used to hope the things I did would work; now I hope they last.
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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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It has always seemed to me that broken things, just like broken people, get used more; it’s probably because God has more pieces to work with.
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