We can’t always see people’s pain; they can always feel our love.
BOB GOFFDo 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.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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Stop telling people how far they have left to go. Instead tell them how far they’ve come.
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God keeps telling us to be not afraid, to go big
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Fear will give us a reason not to try; hope will give us a reason not to listen.
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We need to make our faith our very own love story.
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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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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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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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See people for who they’re becoming. Not who they were.
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Most people need love and acceptance a lot more than they need advice.
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God finds us in the holes we dig for ourselves. We see failures; He sees foundations.
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We’ll fill our lives with what we cultivate the most. Plant grace by the acre.
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Grace draws a circle around everyone and says they’re in.
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But the kind of love that God created and demonstrated is a costly one because it involves sacrifice and presence. It’s a love that operates more like a sign language than being spoken outright.
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Fix your eyes on Jesus; it’s ok to stare.
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Cynicism is fear posing as confidence; joy is hope let off the leash.
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