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?’
BOB GOFFDo what lasts, get around to everything else.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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We get to be God’s plan for the whole world by pointing people toward Him.
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We’ll never honor Christ if we forget how to honor each other.
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When 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.
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Great love leaves little doubt.
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God keeps telling us to be not afraid, to go big
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See people for who they’re becoming. Not who they were.
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Living a life fully engaged in 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.
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We need to make our faith our very own love story.
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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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Figure out what fuels your joy, then do lots of that
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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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Love doesn’t just keep thinking about it or keep planning for it… Simply put: Love does!
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Stop telling people how far they have left to go. Instead tell them how far they’ve come.
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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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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.
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