It’s easy to confuse a lot of activity with a purposeful life. Do what lasts; let the rest fall away.
BOB GOFFNo book is a chapter, no chapter tells the whole story, no mistake defines who we are. Hope makes our lives page turners.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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What I noticed, though, is almost every time I type the word love, it gets changed to the word live…
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I learned that fully loving and fully living are not only synonymous but the kind of life that Jesus invited us to be part of.
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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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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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I used to want to fix people, but now I just want to be with them.
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Love God, love your neighbors, and do stuff!
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Insecurity wants us to keep track of our failures; grace doesn’t even write them down.
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One thing I do is (and I realize this might sound nuts), every month or so, I try to take like an Etch-a-sketch [so to speak], and I clear my faith. I go to zero, clear the deck. And I start adding things back to my faith, one at a time.
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Don’t let other people decide who you are.
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Sometimes we ask God for help and God gives us hope, not because it’s different, but because it’s the same.
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I used to hope the things I did would work; now I hope they last.
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It will be the people with the greatest love, not the most information, who will influence us to change.
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The world will figure out what we really believe, by watching what we actually do.
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We’ll fill our lives with what we cultivate the most. Plant grace by the acre.
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Most of us have all the information we need. What we need is more passion.
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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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See people for who they’re becoming. Not who they were.
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God isn’t afraid of our doubts; He’s way more concerned when we fake it.
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Love finds us where we are, not where we were.
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Love God. Love people. And do stuff. That’s my punch list everyday.
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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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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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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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I know that sounds so circular, but for you, what you were made to do, is different than what I was made to do.
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Words people say not only have a shelf life but have the ability to shape life.
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What distracts us will begin to define us. We don’t need to swing at every pitch.
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