Grace works that way. It’s a kind word from a gentle person with an impossible prayer. It’s a force sometimes transmitted best hand to hand in a dark place.
BOB GOFFThe real game of Bigger and Better that Jesus is playing with us usually isn’t about money or possessions or even our hopes. It’s about our pride.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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Simply put: love does.
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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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No book is a chapter, no chapter tells the whole story, no mistake defines who we are. Hope makes our lives page turners.
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Love has the kind of power criticism only wishes it had.
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The most beautiful scenery in the world is when our friends come into view.
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I think of the church as this bride of Christ, who is incredibly capable of doing amazing things. And so where we see injustice, we come, not with fists clenched but with palms up.
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Love is never stationary.
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We can’t always see people’s pain; they can always feel our love.
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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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The world will figure out what we really believe, by watching what we actually do.
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Every time we see people as ordinary, we turn the wine back into water.
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People who want to manipulate you will fear your joy, because it’s not easily controlled.
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When love is a theory, it’s safe, it’s free of risk. But love in the brain changes nothing.
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Love God. Love people. And do stuff. That’s my punch list everyday.
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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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