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.
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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Most of us have all the information we need. What we need is more passion.
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We won’t be like Jesus if it’s more important to us to be like each other. God doesn’t compare what he creates.
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Don’t let other people decide who you are.
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We need to make our faith our very own love story.
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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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Love is never stationary.
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There’s a lot to be concerned about; there’s more to be hopeful for.
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I don’t think success is what we’ve made of ourselves; I think it’s what we’ve made of others.
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See people for who they’re becoming. Not who they were.
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Don’t let not knowing how it’ll end keep you from beginning. Uncertainty chases us out into the open where God is waiting.
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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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Living a life fully engaged and full of whimsy and the kind of things that love does is something most people plan to do, but along the way they just kind of forget. Their dreams become one of those “we’ll go there next time” deferrals.
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We get to be God’s plan for the whole world by pointing people toward Him.
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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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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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