The teachers I’ve learned the most from, didn’t think they were teaching me; they just thought we were friends.
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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Do one thing that’s heroic for you today – big or small – and fear won’t define you anymore.
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God isn’t afraid of our doubts; He’s way more concerned when we fake it.
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Love like there’s no tomorrow; live like there’s no yesterday. We’re forgiven; now go love people like we believe it
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What I noticed, though, is almost every time I type the word love, it gets changed to the word live…
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Every time we see people as ordinary, we turn the wine back into water.
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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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God doesn’t break things so He can fix them; He fixes broken things so He can use them.
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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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Love has the kind of power criticism only wishes it had.
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We can’t always see people’s pain; they can always feel our love.
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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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Selfless love is always costly; fear can’t afford it, pride doesn’t understand it and friends never forget it.
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Living a life of following Christ means constant interruptions.
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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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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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