I used to think God guided us by opening and closing doors, but now I know sometimes God wants us to kick some doors down.
BOB GOFFI used to think you had to be special for God to use you, but now I know you simply need to say yes.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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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.
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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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The way we love people we disagree with is the best evidence of what we really believe.
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Words people say not only have a shelf life but have the ability to shape life.
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When it feels like we need to choose between being right and being humble- pick both
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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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Most people need love and acceptance a lot more than they need advice.
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Living a life fully engaged in full of whimsy and the kind of things that love does is something most people plan to do, but along the way they just kind of forget.
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Stop telling people how far they have left to go. Instead tell them how far they’ve come.
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Don’t let not knowing how it’ll end keep you from beginning. Uncertainty chases us out into the open where God is waiting.
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God made beauty so we’d know how He felt about us.
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Every day God invites us on the same kind of adventure. It’s not a trip where He sends us a rigid itinerary, He simply invites us.
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Love God, love your neighbors, and do stuff!
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Grace means we don’t need to airbrush our lives to make them look like they’re working.
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We all want to have a place where we can dream and escape anything that wraps steel bands around our imagination and creativity.
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