Do what lasts, get around to everything else.
BOB GOFFWe won’t figure out what’s sacred in life if we settle for what’s safe.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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We spend a lot of energy remembering failures God spent a lot of love saying we could forget.
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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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People who want to manipulate you will fear your joy, because it’s not easily controlled.
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Simply put: love does.
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If we only do what we’re familiar with, we might miss what we’ve been made for.
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When you love people like Jesus, you get messy. But messy looks good on you!
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Figure out what fuels your joy, then do lots of that
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When you trust someone, you don’t need to know everything.
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Whimsy doesn’t care if you are the driver or the passenger; all that matters is that you are on your way.
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If you get a no from somebody, don’t say, ‘I’m going to take this as some big cosmic signal.’ No, you just got a no, deal with it. Just go to the next step.
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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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What I noticed, though, is almost every time I type the word love, it gets changed to the word live…
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We can be the light of the world without leaving our high beams on and annoying everybody.
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We can’t always see people’s pain; they can always feel our love.
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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.
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Day turned to night, His friends scattered and death thought it had won. But heaven just started counting to three
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Words people say not only have a shelf life but have the ability to shape life.
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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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Courage isn’t the absence of fear, it’s just deciding that fear isn’t calling the shots anymore
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When you are in high school, you don’t give much thought to what you can’t do. For most people, that gets learned later, and for still fewer, gets unlearned for the rest of life.
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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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Most people need love and acceptance a lot more than they need advice.
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The way we deal with uncertainty says a lot about whether Jesus is ahead of us leading, or behind us just carrying our stuff.
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We get to be God’s plan for the whole world by pointing people toward Him.
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There’s a lot to be concerned about; there’s more to be hopeful for.
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Do less of what you’re terrible at and more of what you’re good at. I don’t know if that sounds too simple, but it’s been working for me.
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