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.
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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I used to be afraid of failing at something that really mattered to me, but now I’m more afraid of succeeding at things that don’t matter.
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God’s never as nervous about our future, or as concerned about our past, as we are.
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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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For those who resonate with formulas, here it is: add your whole life, your loves, your passions, and your interests together with what God said He wants us to be about, and that’s your answer.
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Jesus lets us be real with our life and our faith.
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Most of us have all the information we need. What we need is more passion.
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Grace draws a circle around everyone and says they’re in.
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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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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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When you love people like Jesus, you get messy. But messy looks good on you!
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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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Every time we see people as ordinary, we turn the wine back into water.
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We won’t be like Jesus if it’s more important to us to be like each other. God doesn’t compare what he creates.
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Love has the kind of power criticism only wishes it had.
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Next to grace, I bet God thinks making us need each other was one of His best ideas.
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