Stop doing what you’re able to do and figure out what you were made to do – then do lots of that.
BOB GOFFGod wants us to kick it down. Or perhaps just sit outside of it long enough until somebody tells us we can come in.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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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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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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He asks if we’ll give up that thing we’re so proud of, that thing we believe causes us to matter in the eyes of the world, and give it up to follow Him. He’s asking us, ‘Will you take what you think defines you, leave it behind, and let Me define who you are instead?’
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Love God, love your neighbors, and do stuff!
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We spend a lot of energy remembering failures God spent a lot of love saying we could forget.
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We’ll become whoever we trust the most says we are.
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What I’ve learned the more time I’ve spent following Jesus is that God delights in answering our impossible prayers.
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Love God. Love people. And do stuff. That’s my punch list everyday.
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Loving people the way Jesus did, means living a life of constant interruptions. Bring it.
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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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Courage isn’t the absence of fear, it’s just deciding that fear isn’t calling the shots anymore
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God delights in answering our impossible prayers.
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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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I never know what all of the steps are but I do know the next step.
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That’s one of those things about love. It always assumes it can find a way to express itself.
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