If we only do what we’re familiar with, we might miss what we’ve been made for.
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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God’s grace comes in all shapes, sizes, and circumstances as God continues to unfold something magnificent in me.
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I learned that fully loving and fully living are not only synonymous but the kind of life that Jesus invited us to be part of.
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You can quit anything on a Thursday.
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Grace means we don’t need to airbrush our lives to make them look like they’re working.
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The way we love people we disagree with is the best evidence of what we really believe.
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Small streams don’t plan to be mighty rivers. We just move in a direction; God decides what He’ll have us become.
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I know that sounds so circular, but for you, what you were made to do, is different than what I was made to do.
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Words people say not only have a shelf life but have the ability to shape life.
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God places that desire deep in our hearts because He wants it for us and it honors Him. Maybe there are times when we think a door has been closed and, instead of misinterpreting the circumstances,
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God asks what it is He’s made us to love, what it is that captures our attention, what feeds that deep indescribable need of our souls to experience the richness of the world He made. And then, leaning over us, He whispers, “Let’s go do that together.
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Most people need love and acceptance a lot more than they need advice.
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We’ll fill our lives with what we cultivate the most. Plant grace by the acre.
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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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Living a life fully engaged in 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.
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I used to think God guided us by opening and closing doors, but now I know sometimes God wants us to kick some doors down.
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Being engaged is a way of doing life, a way of living and loving. It’s about going to extremes and expressing the bright hope that life offers us.
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You don’t need a plan; you just need to be present.
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God makes confetti out of our titles and accomplishments to celebrate the poor and the humble.
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That’s what love does – it pursues blindly, unflinchingly, and without end. When you go after something you love, you’ll do anything it takes to get it, even if it costs everything.
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Love finds us where we are, not where we were.
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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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Love doesn’t just keep thinking about it or keep planning for it… Simply put: Love does!
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I never know what all of the steps are but I do know the next step.
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We keep telling God our opinions; He keeps asking us about our hearts. We’ll grow the most when we have the right conversations.
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The battle for our hearts is fought on the pages of our calendar.
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I used to want to fix people, but now I just want to be with them.
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