Grace works that way. It’s a kind word from a gentle person with an impossible prayer. It’s a force sometimes transmitted best hand to hand in a dark place.
BOB GOFFGrace draws a circle around everyone and says they’re in.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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Live a life of conspicuous grace and courageous resolve.
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Every time we see people as ordinary, we turn the wine back into water.
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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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We get to be God’s plan for the whole world by pointing people toward Him.
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But 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.
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Love doesn’t try to be efficient; when it is most extravagant, it is least wasted.
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Living a life of following Christ means constant interruptions.
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I once heard somebody say that God had closed a door on an opportunity they had hoped for. But I’ve always wondered if when we want to do something that we know is right and good,
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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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When you trust someone, you don’t need to know everything.
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Love has the kind of power criticism only wishes it had.
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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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Being engaged is a way of doing life, a way of living and loving. It’s about going to extremes and expressing the bright hope that life offers us.
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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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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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