What Jesus said we could do is leave typical behind.
BOB GOFFWhen you are in high school, you don’t give much thought to what you can’t do. For most people, that gets learned later, and for still fewer, gets unlearned for the rest of life.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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I never know what all of the steps are but I do know the next step.
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The way we treat people we disagree with most is a report card on what we’ve learned about love.
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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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I know that sounds so circular, but for you, what you were made to do, is different than what I was made to do.
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We’ll never honor Christ if we forget how to honor each other.
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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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Live your life like you’re exactly who Jesus thinks you are.
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What I’ve learned the more time I’ve spent following Jesus is that God delights in answering our impossible prayers.
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The world will figure out what we really believe, by watching what we actually do.
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Love is never stationary.
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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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Grace draws a circle around everyone and says they’re in.
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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?’
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A hope that makes us brave and expels darkness with light. That’s what I want my life to be all about – full of abandon, whimsy, and in love.
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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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