Not surprisingly, we’d get a lot more done too, because we wouldn’t care who’s looking or taking credit. All that energy would be funnelled into awesomeness.
BOB GOFFYou 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.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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I don’t think success is what we’ve made of ourselves; I think it’s what we’ve made of others.
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Love finds us where we are, not where we were.
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God keeps telling us to be not afraid, to go big
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Surround yourself with prompts that remind you who Jesus is.
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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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The shallow end of hope is usually the deep end of grace.
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Words people say not only have a shelf life but have the ability to shape life.
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We won’t be like Jesus if it’s more important to us to be like each other. God doesn’t compare what he creates.
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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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What distracts us will begin to define us. We don’t need to swing at every pitch.
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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.
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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 plant sod where God wants 2 plant seed. He’s more interested in growing our character than having us look finished.
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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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Something happens when you feel ownership. You no longer act like a spectator or consumer, because you’re an owner. Faith is at its best when it’s that way too. It’s best lived when it’s owned.
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