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He asks if we’ll give up that thing we’re so proud of, that thing we believe causes us to matter in the eyes of the world, and give it up to follow Him. He’s asking us, ‘Will you take what you think defines you, leave it behind, and let Me define who you are instead?’

Bob Goff

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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Engaged Most People Things
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
We keep telling God our opinions; He keeps asking us about our hearts. We’ll grow the most when we have the right conversations.
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Asking Heart Opinion
Stand up like a mountain; have faith like a rock; love like an avalanche
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Faith Mountain Rocks Stand
Surround yourself with prompts that remind you who Jesus is.
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Jesus Prompt Surround Yourself
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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Compare Important Jesus
When love is a theory, it’s safe, it’s free of risk. But love in the brain changes nothing.
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Brain Love Risk
It will be more love, not more information, that will change our hearts.
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Heart Hearts Information Our
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
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 makes confetti out of our titles and accomplishments to celebrate the poor and the humble.
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Accomplishment Humble Titles
That’s one of the things about love. It doesn’t recognize boundaries and never obeys the rules we try to give it.
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Boundaries Giving Trying
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
Words people say not only have a shelf life but have the ability to shape life.
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People Shapes Shelves
Next to grace, I bet God thinks making us need each other was one of His best ideas.
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Grace Ideas Thinking

He asks if we’ll give up that thing we’re so proud of, that thing we believe causes us to matter in the eyes of the world, and give it up to follow Him. He’s asking us, ‘Will you take what you think defines you, leave it behind, and let Me define who you are instead?’

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He asks if we’ll give up that thing we’re so proud of, that thing we believe causes us to matter in the eyes of the world, and give it up to follow Him. He’s asking us, ‘Will you take what you think defines you, leave it behind, and let Me define who you are instead?’

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