We spend a lot of energy remembering failures God spent a lot of love saying we could forget.
BOB GOFFSee people for who they’re becoming. Not who they were.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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We’ll never honor Christ if we forget how to honor each other.
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Here’s our job as believers, love everybody ALWAYS!
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Don’t let not knowing how it’ll end keep you from beginning. Uncertainty chases us out into the open where God is waiting.
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Like the circular rails of a train at an amusement park, the scripts we know offer a brand of security, of predictability, of safety for us. But the problem is, they only take us where we’ve already been.
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God places that desire deep in our hearts because He wants it for us and it honors Him. Maybe there are times when we think a door has been closed and, instead of misinterpreting the circumstances,
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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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We get to be God’s plan for the whole world by pointing people toward Him.
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Do what lasts, get around to everything else.
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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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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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Love God, love your neighbors, and do stuff!
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That’s what love does – it pursues blindly, unflinchingly, and without end. When you go after something you love, you’ll do anything it takes to get it, even if it costs everything.
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People who want to manipulate you will fear your joy, because it’s not easily controlled.
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I don’t know every step I’m supposed to take. I think Jesus just wants me to take the next step.
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Figure out what fuels your joy, then do lots of that
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