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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.

Bob Goff

Every time we see people as ordinary, we turn the wine back into water.
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Ordinary People Water Wine
I used to think life could be shared with anyone, but now I know choosing the right people is pretty important.
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Important People Thinking
God asks what it is He’s made us to love, what it is that captures our attention, what feeds that deep indescribable need of our souls to experience the richness of the world He made. And then, leaning over us, He whispers, “Let’s go do that together.
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Ask Attention Captures God Layering Made Richness
I used to think I could learn about Jesus by studying Him, but now I know Jesus doesn’t want stalkers.
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Jesus Thinking Want
We won’t figure out what’s sacred in life if we settle for what’s safe.
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Sacred Safe Settling
God’s never as nervous about our future, or as concerned about our past, as we are.
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Future Nervous Our Past
Love finds us where we are, not where we were.
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Emotion Find Love Trust
God makes confetti out of our titles and accomplishments to celebrate the poor and the humble.
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Accomplishment Humble Titles
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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Bible Instead Made Some Things
Love doesn’t just keep thinking about it or keep planning for it… Simply put: Love does!
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Planning Simple Thinking
God delights in answering our impossible prayers.
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Delight Impossible Prayer
Most of us have all the information we need. What we need is more passion.
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Information Needs Passion
Great love leaves little doubt.
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Doubt Great Littles Love
I used to think God wouldn’t talk to me, but now I know I’m just selective with what I choose to hear.
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Choose Talk Thinking Used
God keeps telling us to be not afraid, to go big
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Afraid Bigs Telling
We need to wash the feet of our enemies.
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Enemy Feet Needs
I don’t think success is what we’ve made of ourselves; I think it’s what we’ve made of others.
BOB GOFF

Made Ourselves Success Thinking
God wants us to kick it down. Or perhaps just sit outside of it long enough until somebody tells us we can come in.
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Enough God Perhaps Somebody Tells Wants
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.
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Awesomeness Everyone Somehow Surprise
Like the circular rails of a train at an amusement park, the scripts we know offer a brand of security, of predictability, of safety for us. But the problem is, they only take us where we’ve already been.
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Already Amusement Circular Park Predictability Train
That’s a prank. It has no shelf life, like reassembling the principal’s car up on the roof of the gym. It’s cute and everything but there’s no shelf-life, and it can actually be kind of destructive. But a caper is different. It’s something where everybody has made it in.
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Actual Cute Destructive Everything Prank Principle
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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Bible Friday Guy Men Scripture Years
The shallow end of hope is usually the deep end of grace.
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Ends Grace Shallow
Figure out what fuels your joy, then do lots of that
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Figures Fuel Joy
Living a life of following Christ means constant interruptions.
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Christ Constant Following Mean
It has always seemed to me that broken things, just like broken people, get used more; it’s probably because God has more pieces to work with.
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Broken God Religious Work
Sometimes we ask God for help and God gives us hope, not because it’s different, but because it’s the same.
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Different Giving Helping

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