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That’s one of those things about love. It always assumes it can find a way to express itself.

Bob Goff

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
Don’t let other people decide who you are.
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Decide Let People
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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Ask Cause Define Eyes Proud Thing
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
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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Books Mistakes Stories
We’re part of God’s much bigger plan for the whole world. Just like God’s Son arrived here, so did you. And after Jesus arrived, God whispered to all of humanity “It’s your move.
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Arrive Jesus Moving Son
Most people need love and acceptance a lot more than they need advice.
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Acceptance Healing Motivational
I used to think life could be shared with anyone, but now I know choosing the right people is pretty important.
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Important People Thinking
Love God. Love people. And do stuff. That’s my punch list everyday.
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Day Every People Stuff
What I’ve learned the more time I’ve spent following Jesus is that God delights in answering our impossible prayers.
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Delight Jesus Prayer
It’s easy to confuse a lot of activity with a purposeful life. Do what lasts; let the rest fall away.
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Easy Fall Lasts
We’ll become whoever we trust the most says we are.
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Become Most Say Trust
A hope that makes us brave and expels darkness with light. That’s what I want my life to be all about – full of abandon, whimsy, and in love.
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Abandon Brave Darkness Love
They loop us back to places where everyone can easily go, not necessarily where we were made to go. Living a different kind of life takes some guts and grit and a new way of seeing things.
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Everyone Girl Living Necessarily Seeing Things
Every time we see people as ordinary, we turn the wine back into water.
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Ordinary People Water Wine
Jesus lets us be real with our life and our faith.
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Being Faith Jesus Real
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
We plant sod where God wants 2 plant seed. He’s more interested in growing our character than having us look finished.
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Character Growing Looks
Living a life of following Christ means constant interruptions.
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Christ Constant Following Mean
We need to wash the feet of our enemies.
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Enemy Feet Needs
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 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
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
People who want to manipulate you will fear your joy, because it’s not easily controlled.
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Joy People Want
God isn’t afraid of our doubts; He’s way more concerned when we fake it.
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Doubt Fake Way
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

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