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The 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.

Bob Goff

What I noticed, though, is almost every time I type the word love, it gets changed to the word live…
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Change Jesus Kind Type
We’re all amateurs when it comes to love. Don’t be too hard on each other.
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Amateurs Hard Other
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,
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Heart Opportunity Thinking
God delights in answering our impossible prayers.
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Delight Impossible Prayer
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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Brave Darkness Light
Something happens when you feel ownership. You no longer act like a spectator or consumer, because you’re an owner. Faith is at its best when it’s that way too. It’s best lived when it’s owned.
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Faith Feels Ownership Way
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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Abut Answer Formulas Passion
Fear will give us a reason not to try; hope will give us a reason not to listen.
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Giving Reason Trying
I used to want to fix people, but now I just want to be with them.
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People Used Want
Living a life of following Christ means constant interruptions.
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Christ Constant Following Mean
Don’t let not knowing how it’ll end keep you from beginning. Uncertainty chases us out into the open where God is waiting.
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Ends Knowing Waiting
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
Whatever you’re aiming for, God’s better.
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Animal Better God
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.
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Dark Hands Prayer
Nobody turns down an invitation to the White House, but I’ve seen plenty of people turn down an invitation to fully live.
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House People White
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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Actual Cute Destructive Everything Prank Principle
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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Simple Sound Terrible
Here’s our job as believers, love everybody ALWAYS!
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Believer Everybody Jobs
You can quit anything on a Thursday.
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Quit Quitting Thursday
Small streams don’t plan to be mighty rivers. We just move in a direction; God decides what He’ll have us become.
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Moving Rivers Streams
We can’t always see people’s pain; they can always feel our love.
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Love Our Pain People
There’s a lot to be concerned about; there’s more to be hopeful for.
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Concerned Hopeful Lot More
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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Giving Life Rest School
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
We determine how much influence we’ll have, when we decide how available we’ll be.
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Available Determine Influence
Most people need love and acceptance a lot more than they need advice.
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Acceptance Healing Motivational
I don’t think success is what we’ve made of ourselves; I think it’s what we’ve made of others.
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Made Ourselves Success Thinking

The 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.

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