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.
BOB GOFFLove like there’s no tomorrow; live like there’s no yesterday. We’re forgiven; now go love people like we believe it
More Bob Goff Quotes
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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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The world will figure out what we really believe, by watching what we actually do.
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God finds us in the holes we dig for ourselves. We see failures; He sees foundations.
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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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We’re part of God’s much bigger plan for the whole world. Just like God’s Son arrived here, so did you. And after Jesus arrived, God whispered to all of humanity “It’s your move.
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Whatever you’re aiming for, God’s better.
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But instead of spending all of our time having Bible studies about what we were made to do, go do stuff and you’ll figure out what you were made to do, because you’ll be great at some things and you’ll be terrible at others.
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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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Figure out what fuels your joy, then do lots of that
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The teachers I’ve learned the most from, didn’t think they were teaching me; they just thought we were friends.
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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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We’re all amateurs when it comes to love. Don’t be too hard on each other.
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Grace draws a circle around everyone and says they’re in.
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What would be the first thing I’d add back? Jesus. It sounds a little bit like a Sunday school answer, but that’s what I do. Then what’s the next thing? And I’d say, well, loving people. And then the next.
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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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