If we only do what we’re familiar with, we might miss what we’ve been made for.
BOB GOFFSee people for who they’re becoming. Not who they were.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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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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Loving people the way Jesus did, means living a life of constant interruptions. Bring it.
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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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There’s a lot to be concerned about; there’s more to be hopeful for.
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Love God, love your neighbors, and do stuff!
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We can be the light of the world without leaving our high beams on and annoying everybody.
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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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Jesus never told His friends to play it safe.
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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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When love is a theory, it’s safe, it’s free of risk. But love in the brain changes nothing.
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I never know what all of the steps are but I do know the next step.
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Most people need love and acceptance a lot more than they need advice.
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That’s one of the things about love. It doesn’t recognize boundaries and never obeys the rules we try to give it.
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Great love leaves little doubt.
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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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Cynicism is fear posing as confidence; joy is hope let off the leash.
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That’s a prank. It has no shelf life, like reassembling the principal’s car up on the roof of the gym. It’s cute and everything but there’s no shelf-life, and it can actually be kind of destructive. But a caper is different. It’s something where everybody has made it in.
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Do one thing that’s heroic for you today – big or small – and fear won’t define you anymore.
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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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I learned that fully loving and fully living are not only synonymous but the kind of life that Jesus invited us to be part of.
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God made beauty so we’d know how He felt about us.
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It will be more love, not more information, that will change our hearts.
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We won’t figure out what’s sacred in life if we settle for what’s safe.
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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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God asks what it is He’s made us to love, what it is that captures our attention, what feeds that deep indescribable need of our souls to experience the richness of the world He made. And then, leaning over us, He whispers, “Let’s go do that together.
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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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