For those who resonate with formulas, here it is: add your whole life, your loves, your passions, and your interests together with what God said He wants us to be about, and that’s your answer.
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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What Jesus said we could do is leave typical behind.
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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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But the kind of love that God created and demonstrated is a costly one because it involves sacrifice and presence. It’s a love that operates more like a sign language than being spoken outright.
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Next to grace, I bet God thinks making us need each other was one of His best ideas.
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Most of us have all the information we need. What we need is more passion.
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I used to think I could learn about Jesus by studying Him, but now I know Jesus doesn’t want stalkers.
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We’ll become whoever we trust the most says we are.
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It will be more love, not more information, that will change our hearts.
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We’ll fill our lives with what we cultivate the most. Plant grace by the acre.
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Words people say not only have a shelf life but have the ability to shape life.
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Small streams don’t plan to be mighty rivers. We just move in a direction; God decides what He’ll have us become.
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I once heard somebody say that God had closed a door on an opportunity they had hoped for. But I’ve always wondered if when we want to do something that we know is right and good,
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Grace works that way. It’s a kind word from a gentle person with an impossible prayer. It’s a force sometimes transmitted best hand to hand in a dark place.
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Every time we see people as ordinary, we turn the wine back into water.
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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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