God makes confetti out of our titles and accomplishments to celebrate the poor and the humble.
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 used to think God guided us by opening and closing doors, but now I know sometimes God wants us to kick some doors down.
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Courage isn’t the absence of fear, it’s just deciding that fear isn’t calling the shots anymore
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Grace draws a circle around everyone and says they’re in.
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We keep asking for answers; God keeps sending us people.
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What Jesus said we could do is leave typical behind.
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Most of us have all the information we need. What we need is more passion.
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Simply put: love does.
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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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What distracts us will begin to define us. We don’t need to swing at every pitch.
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Do what lasts, get around to everything else.
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…we need to stop plotting the course and instead just land the plane on our plans to make a difference by getting to the “do” part of faith.
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God delights in answering our impossible prayers.
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God doesn’t break things so He can fix them; He fixes broken things so He can use them.
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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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No book is a chapter, no chapter tells the whole story, no mistake defines who we are. Hope makes our lives page turners.
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The shallow end of hope is usually the deep end of grace.
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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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I used to think JESUS motivated us with ultimatums, but now I know He pursues us in LOVE.
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I don’t think success is what we’ve made of ourselves; I think it’s what we’ve made of others.
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Day turned to night, His friends scattered and death thought it had won. But heaven just started counting to three
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Fix your eyes on Jesus; it’s ok to stare.
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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 doesn’t try to be efficient; when it is most extravagant, it is least wasted.
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Love God. Love people. And do stuff. That’s my punch list everyday.
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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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You can quit anything on a Thursday.
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