People who want to manipulate you will fear your joy, because it’s not easily controlled.
BOB GOFFGod makes confetti out of our titles and accomplishments to celebrate the poor and the humble.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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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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Not surprisingly, we’d get a lot more done too, because we wouldn’t care who’s looking or taking credit. All that energy would be funnelled into awesomeness.
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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 used to think life could be shared with anyone, but now I know choosing the right people is pretty important.
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I don’t think anyone aims to be typical, really. Most people even vow to themselves some time in high school or college not to be typical. But still, they just kind of loop back to it somehow.
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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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We spend a lot of energy remembering failures God spent a lot of love saying we could forget.
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Love God, love your neighbors, and do stuff!
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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.
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Fix your eyes on Jesus; it’s ok to stare.
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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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Love finds us where we are, not where we were.
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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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Whatever you’re aiming for, God’s better.
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Grace means we can put the chalk away and stop keeping score!
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