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When love is a theory, it’s safe, it’s free of risk. But love in the brain changes nothing.

Bob Goff

We’ll never honor Christ if we forget how to honor each other.
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Christ Forget Honor
People who want to manipulate you will fear your joy, because it’s not easily controlled.
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Joy People Want
I’m all for getting together with men and women in small groups around Scripture and letting it just wash over us, but for me, I’ve been meeting with the same ten guys for like 15 years now, but we don’t have a Bible study every Friday, we have a Bible doing.
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Bible Friday Guy Men Scripture Years
You don’t need a plan; you just need to be present.
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Needs Plans Present
What would be the first thing I’d add back? Jesus. It sounds a little bit like a Sunday school answer, but that’s what I do. Then what’s the next thing? And I’d say, well, loving people. And then the next.
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Answer Loving People School Sunday
We spend a lot of energy remembering failures God spent a lot of love saying we could forget.
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Energy Forget Remember
We’ll fill our lives with what we cultivate the most. Plant grace by the acre.
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Acres Grace Plant
You can quit anything on a Thursday.
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Quit Quitting Thursday
We determine how much influence we’ll have, when we decide how available we’ll be.
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Available Determine Influence
I used to hope the things I did would work; now I hope they last.
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Hope Lasts Used Work
We keep asking for answers; God keeps sending us people.
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Answers Asking People
I don’t think anyone aims to be typical, really. Most people even vow to themselves some time in high school or college not to be typical. But still, they just kind of loop back to it somehow.
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College School Thinking
The world will figure out what we really believe, by watching what we actually do.
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Believe Figures World
I used to think God wouldn’t talk to me, but now I know I’m just selective with what I choose to hear.
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Choose Talk Thinking Used
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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Carrying Jesus Stuff Way
We can be the light of the world without leaving our high beams on and annoying everybody.
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Annoy Everybody Leaving Light World
I learned that fully loving and fully living are not only synonymous but the kind of life that Jesus invited us to be part of.
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Fully Invited Learn Living Part
Grace means we don’t need to airbrush our lives to make them look like they’re working.
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Grace Mean Needs
Stop telling people how far they have left to go. Instead tell them how far they’ve come.
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Come Left People
God’s never as nervous about our future, or as concerned about our past, as we are.
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Future Nervous Our Past
Courage isn’t the absence of fear, it’s just deciding that fear isn’t calling the shots anymore
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Absence Calling Shots
God keeps telling us to be not afraid, to go big
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Afraid Bigs Telling
The teachers I’ve learned the most from, didn’t think they were teaching me; they just thought we were friends.
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Teacher Teaching Thinking
God isn’t afraid of our doubts; He’s way more concerned when we fake it.
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Doubt Fake Way
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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Matter Way Whimsy
Like the circular rails of a train at an amusement park, the scripts we know offer a brand of security, of predictability, of safety for us. But the problem is, they only take us where we’ve already been.
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Already Amusement Circular Park Predictability Train
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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Failing Matter Succeed

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