We’ll become whoever we trust the most says we are.
BOB GOFFBut 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.
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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We spend a lot of energy remembering failures God spent a lot of love saying we could forget.
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Jesus never told His friends to play it safe.
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You can quit anything on a Thursday.
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I once heard somebody say that God had closed a door on an opportunity they had hoped for. But I’ve always wondered if when we want to do something that we know is right and good,
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Grace draws a circle around everyone and says they’re in.
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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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Day turned to night, His friends scattered and death thought it had won. But heaven just started counting to three
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Love God, love your neighbors, and do stuff!
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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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Love doesn’t just keep thinking about it or keep planning for it… Simply put: Love does!
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Every time we see people as ordinary, we turn the wine back into water.
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I think of the church as this bride of Christ, who is incredibly capable of doing amazing things. And so where we see injustice, we come, not with fists clenched but with palms up.
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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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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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