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Love finds us where we are, not where we were.

Bob Goff

What would be the first thing I’d add back? Jesus. It sounds a little bit like a Sunday school answer, but that’s what I do. Then what’s the next thing? And I’d say, well, loving people. And then the next.
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Answer Loving People School Sunday
We need to make our faith our very own love story.
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Love Needs Stories Story
God finds us in the holes we dig for ourselves. We see failures; He sees foundations.
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Foundation God Holes Search
Live your life like you’re exactly who Jesus thinks you are.
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Jesus Life Live Thinking
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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Attitude Dream Love Something
We keep asking for answers; God keeps sending us people.
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Answers Asking People
Do one thing that’s heroic for you today – big or small – and fear won’t define you anymore.
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Bigs Heroic Today
Jesus won’t try to speak over the noise in our lives; love whispers so we won’t be confused about who’s doing the talking.
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Confused Jesus Life Love
We need to wash the feet of our enemies.
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Enemy Feet Needs
We’ll never honor Christ if we forget how to honor each other.
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Christ Forget Honor
What Jesus said we could do is leave typical behind.
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Jesus Said Typical
When love is a theory, it’s safe, it’s free of risk. But love in the brain changes nothing.
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Brain Love Risk
Fix your eyes on Jesus; it’s ok to stare.
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Eye Jesus Staring
Cynicism is fear posing as confidence; joy is hope let off the leash.
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Cynicism Joy Posing
Great love leaves little doubt.
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Doubt Great Littles Love
Grace means we can put the chalk away and stop keeping score!
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Chalk Grace Mean
Surround yourself with prompts that remind you who Jesus is.
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Jesus Prompt Surround Yourself
We get to be God’s plan for the whole world by pointing people toward Him.
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God People Plan World
When you trust someone, you don’t need to know everything.
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Knows Needs Something Trust
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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House People White
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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Abandon Brave Darkness Love
We can’t always see people’s pain; they can always feel our love.
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Love Our Pain People
God doesn’t break things so He can fix them; He fixes broken things so He can use them.
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Christian Faith God
Love doesn’t try to be efficient; when it is most extravagant, it is least wasted.
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Efficient Extravagant Trying
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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Ask Cause Define Eyes Proud Thing
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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Compare Important Jesus
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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Fighting Guy Running Somewhere

Love finds us where we are, not where we were.

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