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.
BOB GOFFThe teachers I’ve learned the most from, didn’t think they were teaching me; they just thought we were friends.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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Whimsy doesn’t care if you are the driver or the passenger; all that matters is that you are on your way.
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Loving people the way Jesus did, means living a life of constant interruptions. Bring it.
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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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What Jesus said we could do is leave typical behind.
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We get to be God’s plan for the whole world by pointing people toward Him.
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Simply put: love does.
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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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Great love leaves little doubt.
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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 spend a lot of energy remembering failures God spent a lot of love saying we could forget.
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God’s grace comes in all shapes, sizes, and circumstances as God continues to unfold something magnificent in me.
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Love God, love your neighbors, and do stuff!
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Every day God invites us on the same kind of adventure. It’s not a trip where He sends us a rigid itinerary, He simply invites us.
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The teachers I’ve learned the most from, didn’t think they were teaching me; they just thought we were friends.
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Love finds us where we are, not where we were.
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