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?’
BOB GOFFEvery time we see people as ordinary, we turn the wine back into water.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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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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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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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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Insecurity wants us to keep track of our failures; grace doesn’t even write them down.
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God keeps telling us to be not afraid, to go big
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Love finds us where we are, not where we were.
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What distracts us will begin to define us. We don’t need to swing at every pitch.
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Being engaged is a way of doing life, a way of living and loving. It’s about going to extremes and expressing the bright hope that life offers us.
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Great love leaves little doubt.
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…we need to stop plotting the course and instead just land the plane on our plans to make a difference by getting to the “do” part of faith.
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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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Figure out what fuels your joy, then do lots of that
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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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Grace means we can put the chalk away and stop keeping score!
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Selfless love is always costly; fear can’t afford it, pride doesn’t understand it and friends never forget it.
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