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,
BOB GOFFWhen love is a theory, it’s safe, it’s free of risk. But love in the brain changes nothing.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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Figure out what fuels your joy, then do lots of that
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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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The way we love people we disagree with is the best evidence of what we really believe.
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God made beauty so we’d know how He felt about us.
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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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It will be the people with the greatest love, not the most information, who will influence us to change.
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What I’ve learned the more time I’ve spent following Jesus is that God delights in answering our impossible prayers.
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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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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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I know that sounds so circular, but for you, what you were made to do, is different than what I was made to do.
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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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Selfless love is always costly; fear can’t afford it, pride doesn’t understand it and friends never forget it.
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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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Surround yourself with prompts that remind you who Jesus is.
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Jesus never told His friends to play it safe.
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