If you’re following God and haven’t lost much of what you’ve been holding on to – follow a little closer.
BOB GOFFWe can’t always see people’s pain; they can always feel our love.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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We keep asking for answers; God keeps sending us people.
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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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Every day God invites us on the same kind of adventure. It’s not a trip where He sends us a rigid itinerary, He simply invites us.
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God finds us in the holes we dig for ourselves. We see failures; He sees foundations.
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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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Courage isn’t the absence of fear, it’s just deciding that fear isn’t calling the shots anymore
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We’ll become whoever we trust the most says we are.
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One thing I do is (and I realize this might sound nuts), every month or so, I try to take like an Etch-a-sketch [so to speak], and I clear my faith. I go to zero, clear the deck. And I start adding things back to my faith, one at a time.
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Living a life fully engaged and 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. Their dreams become one of those “we’ll go there next time” deferrals.
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Do less of what you’re terrible at and more of what you’re good at. I don’t know if that sounds too simple, but it’s been working for me.
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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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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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Loving people the way Jesus did, means living a life of constant interruptions. Bring it.
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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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Simply put: love does.
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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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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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God’s grace comes in all shapes, sizes, and circumstances as God continues to unfold something magnificent in me.
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That’s one of those things about love. It always assumes it can find a way to express itself.
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Don’t let other people decide who you are.
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Nobody turns down an invitation to the White House, but I’ve seen plenty of people turn down an invitation to fully live.
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We spend a lot of energy remembering failures God spent a lot of love saying we could forget.
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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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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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The shallow end of hope is usually the deep end of grace.
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Fix your eyes on Jesus; it’s ok to stare.
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