Not surprisingly, we’d get a lot more done too, because we wouldn’t care who’s looking or taking credit. All that energy would be funnelled into awesomeness.
BOB GOFFInsecurity wants us to keep track of our failures; grace doesn’t even write them down.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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Loving people the way Jesus did, means living a life of constant interruptions. Bring it.
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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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We won’t be distracted by comparison if we’re captivated with purpose.
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See people for who they’re becoming. Not who they were.
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Every time we see people as ordinary, we turn the wine back into water.
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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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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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But instead of spending all of our time having Bible studies about what we were made to do, go do stuff and you’ll figure out what you were made to do, because you’ll be great at some things and you’ll be terrible at others.
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Stand up like a mountain; have faith like a rock; love like an avalanche
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We spend a lot of energy remembering failures God spent a lot of love saying we could forget.
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…we need to stop plotting the course and instead just land the plane on our plans to make a difference by getting to the “do” part of faith.
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We’re all amateurs when it comes to love. Don’t be too hard on each other.
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We determine how much influence we’ll have, when we decide how available we’ll be.
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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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God finds us in the holes we dig for ourselves. We see failures; He sees foundations.
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