We might be known for what we believed, but we’re certain to be remembered for what we did about it.
BOB GOFFI’m all for getting together with men and women in small groups around Scripture and letting it just wash over us, but for me, I’ve been meeting with the same ten guys for like 15 years now, but we don’t have a Bible study every Friday, we have a Bible doing.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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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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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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Most of us have all the information we need. What we need is more passion.
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When you trust someone, you don’t need to know everything.
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God delights in answering our impossible prayers.
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We’re all amateurs when it comes to love. Don’t be too hard on each other.
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We get to be God’s plan for the whole world by pointing people toward Him.
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Stand up like a mountain; have faith like a rock; love like an avalanche
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There’s a lot to be concerned about; there’s more to be hopeful for.
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Loving people the way Jesus did, means living a life of constant interruptions. Bring it.
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But instead of spending all of our time having Bible studies about what we were made to do, go do stuff and you’ll figure out what you were made to do, because you’ll be great at some things and you’ll be terrible at others.
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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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Grace means we don’t need to airbrush our lives to make them look like they’re working.
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If you’re following God and haven’t lost much of what you’ve been holding on to – follow a little closer.
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We’ll become whoever we trust the most says we are.
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Jesus lets us be real with our life and our faith.
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Grace draws a circle around everyone and says they’re in.
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I think of the church as this bride of Christ, who is incredibly capable of doing amazing things. And so where we see injustice, we come, not with fists clenched but with palms up.
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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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I’m all for getting together with men and women in small groups around Scripture and letting it just wash over us, but for me, I’ve been meeting with the same ten guys for like 15 years now, but we don’t have a Bible study every Friday, we have a Bible doing.
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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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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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Live a life of conspicuous grace and courageous resolve.
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Here’s our job as believers, love everybody ALWAYS!
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We’ll never honor Christ if we forget how to honor each other.
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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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