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.
BOB GOFFThe way we treat people we disagree with most is a report card on what we’ve learned about love.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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When it feels like we need to choose between being right and being humble- pick both
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When you love people like Jesus, you get messy. But messy looks good on you!
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When love is a theory, it’s safe, it’s free of risk. But love in the brain changes nothing.
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The world will figure out what we really believe, by watching what we actually do.
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Every time we see people as ordinary, we turn the wine back into water.
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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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We spend a lot of energy remembering failures God spent a lot of love saying we could forget.
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Grace means we can put the chalk away and stop keeping score!
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The shallow end of hope is usually the deep end of grace.
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Cynicism is fear posing as confidence; joy is hope let off the leash.
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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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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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We get to be God’s plan for the whole world by pointing people toward Him.
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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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What distracts us will begin to define us. We don’t need to swing at every pitch.
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