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.
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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We won’t figure out what’s sacred in life if we settle for what’s safe.
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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 might be known for what we believed, but we’re certain to be remembered for what we did about it.
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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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We keep asking for answers; God keeps sending us people.
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Grace means we can put the chalk away and stop keeping score!
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Jesus lets us be real with our life and our faith.
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I used to want to fix people, but now I just want to be with them.
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I used to be afraid of failing at something that really mattered to me, but now I’m more afraid of succeeding at things that don’t matter.
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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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We can’t always see people’s pain; they can always feel our love.
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The world will figure out what we really believe, by watching what we actually do.
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God doesn’t break things so He can fix them; He fixes broken things so He can use them.
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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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I don’t know every step I’m supposed to take. I think Jesus just wants me to take the next step.
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