We plant sod where God wants 2 plant seed. He’s more interested in growing our character than having us look finished.
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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Love God, love your neighbors, and do stuff!
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Selfless love is always costly; fear can’t afford it, pride doesn’t understand it and friends never forget it.
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…we need to stop plotting the course and instead just land the plane on our plans to make a difference by getting to the “do” part of faith.
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See people for who they’re becoming. Not who they were.
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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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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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It will be the people with the greatest love, not the most information, who will influence us to change.
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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 never know what all of the steps are but I do know the next step.
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Like the circular rails of a train at an amusement park, the scripts we know offer a brand of security, of predictability, of safety for us. But the problem is, they only take us where we’ve already been.
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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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Stop doing what you’re able to do and figure out what you were made to do – then do lots of that.
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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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God’s never as nervous about our future, or as concerned about our past, as we are.
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The most beautiful scenery in the world is when our friends come into view.
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It will be more love, not more information, that will change our hearts.
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That’s one of the things about love. It doesn’t recognize boundaries and never obeys the rules we try to give it.
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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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Stand up like a mountain; have faith like a rock; love like an avalanche
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I’m all for getting together with men and women in small groups around Scripture and letting it just wash over us, but for me, I’ve been meeting with the same ten guys for like 15 years now, but we don’t have a Bible study every Friday, we have a Bible doing.
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God isn’t afraid of our doubts; He’s way more concerned when we fake it.
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Do what lasts, get around to everything else.
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God delights in answering our impossible prayers.
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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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Cynicism is fear posing as confidence; joy is hope let off the leash.
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We can’t always see people’s pain; they can always feel our love.
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