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.
BOB GOFFFear will give us a reason not to try; hope will give us a reason not to listen.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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I used to think God wouldn’t talk to me, but now I know I’m just selective with what I choose to hear.
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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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Being engaged is a way of doing life, a way of living and loving. It’s about going to extremes and expressing the bright hope that life offers us.
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God isn’t afraid of our doubts; He’s way more concerned when we fake it.
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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 way we treat people we disagree with most is a report card on what we’ve learned about love.
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If you get a no from somebody, don’t say, ‘I’m going to take this as some big cosmic signal.’ No, you just got a no, deal with it. Just go to the next step.
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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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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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We get to be God’s plan for the whole world by pointing people toward Him.
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I used to hope the things I did would work; now I hope they last.
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I used to be afraid of failing at something that really mattered to me, but now I’m more afraid of succeeding at things that don’t matter.
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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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Live your life like you’re exactly who Jesus thinks you are.
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The world will figure out what we really believe, by watching what we actually do.
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