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Insecurity wants us to keep track of our failures; grace doesn’t even write them down.

Bob Goff

When it feels like we need to choose between being right and being humble- pick both
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Feels Humble Needs
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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Choose Talk Thinking Used
Selfless love is always costly; fear can’t afford it, pride doesn’t understand it and friends never forget it.
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Love Pride Selfless
It will be the people with the greatest love, not the most information, who will influence us to change.
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Greatest Information Love People
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
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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Church Fists Thinking
It has always seemed to me that broken things, just like broken people, get used more; it’s probably because God has more pieces to work with.
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Broken God Religious Work
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.
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Awesomeness Everyone Somehow Surprise
Jesus won’t try to speak over the noise in our lives; love whispers so we won’t be confused about who’s doing the talking.
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Confused Jesus Life Love
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
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
I used to hope the things I did would work; now I hope they last.
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Hope Lasts Used Work
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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Already Amusement Circular Park Predictability Train
Love is never stationary.
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Find Love Stationary
Whimsy doesn’t care if you are the driver or the passenger; all that matters is that you are on your way.
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Matter Way Whimsy
I used to think JESUS motivated us with ultimatums, but now I know He pursues us in LOVE.
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Jesus Motivate Thinking
You don’t want to pick a fight with just the guy at the deli, [you want to] pick a fight somewhere in the world and just run towards it. Run because the fight is going to go on without you if you miss it.
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Fighting Guy Running Somewhere
But the kind of love that God created and demonstrated is a costly one because it involves sacrifice and presence. It’s a love that operates more like a sign language than being spoken outright.
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Kind Language Sacrifice Sign
Do one thing that’s heroic for you today – big or small – and fear won’t define you anymore.
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Bigs Heroic Today
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
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
God keeps telling us to be not afraid, to go big
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Afraid Bigs Telling
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
We won’t be distracted by comparison if we’re captivated with purpose.
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Captivated Distracted Purpose
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
I used to think I could learn about Jesus by studying Him, but now I know Jesus doesn’t want stalkers.
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Jesus Thinking Want
We get to be God’s plan for the whole world by pointing people toward Him.
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God People Plan World

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