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You don’t want to pick a fight with just the guy at the deli, [you want to] pick a fight somewhere in the world and just run towards it. Run because the fight is going to go on without you if you miss it.

Bob Goff

When love is a theory, it’s safe, it’s free of risk. But love in the brain changes nothing.
BOB GOFF

Brain Love Risk
We keep asking for answers; God keeps sending us people.
BOB GOFF

Answers Asking People
There’s a lot to be concerned about; there’s more to be hopeful for.
BOB GOFF

Concerned Hopeful Lot More
Sometimes we ask God for help and God gives us hope, not because it’s different, but because it’s the same.
BOB GOFF

Different Giving Helping
Loving people the way Jesus did, means living a life of constant interruptions. Bring it.
BOB GOFF

Jesus Mean People
The way we deal with uncertainty says a lot about whether Jesus is ahead of us leading, or behind us just carrying our stuff.
BOB GOFF

Carrying Jesus Stuff Way
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.
BOB GOFF

Bible Friday Guy Men Scripture Years
They loop us back to places where everyone can easily go, not necessarily where we were made to go. Living a different kind of life takes some guts and grit and a new way of seeing things.
BOB GOFF

Everyone Girl Living Necessarily Seeing Things
Live a life of conspicuous grace and courageous resolve.
BOB GOFF

Courageous Grace Resolve
God doesn’t break things so He can fix them; He fixes broken things so He can use them.
BOB GOFF

Christian Faith God
I used to hope the things I did would work; now I hope they last.
BOB GOFF

Hope Lasts Used Work
One thing I do is (and I realize this might sound nuts), every month or so, I try to take like an Etch-a-sketch [so to speak], and I clear my faith. I go to zero, clear the deck. And I start adding things back to my faith, one at a time.
BOB GOFF

Jesus Month Realize School Zero
I used to want to fix people, but now I just want to be with them.
BOB GOFF

People Used Want
Most of us have all the information we need. What we need is more passion.
BOB GOFF

Information Needs Passion
What would be the first thing I’d add back? Jesus. It sounds a little bit like a Sunday school answer, but that’s what I do. Then what’s the next thing? And I’d say, well, loving people. And then the next.
BOB GOFF

Answer Loving People School Sunday
Fix your eyes on Jesus; it’s ok to stare.
BOB GOFF

Eye Jesus Staring

You don’t want to pick a fight with just the guy at the deli, [you want to] pick a fight somewhere in the world and just run towards it. Run because the fight is going to go on without you if you miss it.

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You don’t want to pick a fight with just the guy at the deli, [you want to] pick a fight somewhere in the world and just run towards it. Run because the fight is going to go on without you if you miss it.

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