We might be known for what we believed, but we’re certain to be remembered for what we did about 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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Courage isn’t the absence of fear, it’s just deciding that fear isn’t calling the shots anymore
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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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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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Words people say not only have a shelf life but have the ability to shape life.
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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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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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Cynicism is fear posing as confidence; joy is hope let off the leash.
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The way we love people we disagree with is the best evidence of what we really believe.
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God keeps telling us to be not afraid, to go big
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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.
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Love is never stationary.
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That’s a prank. It has no shelf life, like reassembling the principal’s car up on the roof of the gym. It’s cute and everything but there’s no shelf-life, and it can actually be kind of destructive. But a caper is different. It’s something where everybody has made it in.
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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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God places that desire deep in our hearts because He wants it for us and it honors Him. Maybe there are times when we think a door has been closed and, instead of misinterpreting the circumstances,
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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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Stop telling people how far they have left to go. Instead tell them how far they’ve come.
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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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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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When you love people like Jesus, you get messy. But messy looks good on you!
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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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We need to make our faith our very own love story.
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We’ll become whoever we trust the most says we are.
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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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If we only do what we’re familiar with, we might miss what we’ve been made for.
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Love has the kind of power criticism only wishes it had.
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