God keeps telling us to be not afraid, to go big
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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Love finds us where we are, not where we were.
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What I noticed, though, is almost every time I type the word love, it gets changed to the word live…
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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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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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Do what lasts, get around to everything else.
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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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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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Jesus is nuts about kids. He doesn’t seem to think much of lawyers which really lands close to home, but He’s nuts about kids and loves justice.
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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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Love like there’s no tomorrow; live like there’s no yesterday. We’re forgiven; now go love people like we believe it
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One thing I do is (and I realize this might sound nuts), every month or so, I try to take like an Etch-a-sketch [so to speak], and I clear my faith. I go to zero, clear the deck. And I start adding things back to my faith, one at a time.
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God wants us to kick it down. Or perhaps just sit outside of it long enough until somebody tells us we can come in.
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Surround yourself with prompts that remind you who Jesus is.
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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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If we only do what we’re familiar with, we might miss what we’ve been made for.
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