Selfless love is always costly; fear can’t afford it, pride doesn’t understand it and friends never forget it.
BOB GOFFLove God, love your neighbors, and do stuff!
More Bob Goff Quotes
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Whimsy doesn’t care if you are the driver or the passenger; all that matters is that you are on your way.
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Figure out what fuels your joy, then do lots of that
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When you love people like Jesus, you get messy. But messy looks good on you!
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Words people say not only have a shelf life but have the ability to shape life.
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Jesus lets us be real with our life and our faith.
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We determine how much influence we’ll have, when we decide how available we’ll be.
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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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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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I never know what all of the steps are but I do know the next step.
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If we only do what we’re familiar with, we might miss what we’ve been made for.
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I used to think God guided us by opening and closing doors, but now I know sometimes God wants us to kick some doors down.
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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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The real game of Bigger and Better that Jesus is playing with us usually isn’t about money or possessions or even our hopes. It’s about our pride.
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God delights in answering our impossible prayers.
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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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Next to grace, I bet God thinks making us need each other was one of His best ideas.
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It will be more love, not more information, that will change our hearts.
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I used to think I could learn about Jesus by studying Him, but now I know Jesus doesn’t want stalkers.
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Stand up like a mountain; have faith like a rock; love like an avalanche
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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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A hope that makes us brave and expels darkness with light. That’s what I want my life to be all about – full of abandon, whimsy, and in love.
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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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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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Love finds us where we are, not where we were.
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The way we deal with uncertainty says a lot about whether Jesus is ahead of us leading, or behind us just carrying our stuff.
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God made beauty so we’d know how He felt about us.
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