If we only do what we’re familiar with, we might miss what we’ve been made for.
BOB GOFFLiving a life fully engaged in 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.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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We all want to have a place where we can dream and escape anything that wraps steel bands around our imagination and creativity.
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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 won’t be distracted by comparison if we’re captivated with purpose.
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God isn’t afraid of our doubts; He’s way more concerned when we fake it.
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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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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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God doesn’t break things so He can fix them; He fixes broken things so He can use them.
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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 organization just said no to you. Find what it is that you were made to do and get on it! Go do what you were made to do.
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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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What I noticed, though, is almost every time I type the word love, it gets changed to the word live…
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We determine how much influence we’ll have, when we decide how available we’ll be.
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Do what lasts, get around to everything else.
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Loving people the way Jesus did, means living a life of constant interruptions. Bring it.
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Grace means we can put the chalk away and stop keeping score!
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