God made beauty so we’d know how He felt about us.
BOB GOFFWhat 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.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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You don’t need a plan; you just need to be present.
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God makes confetti out of our titles and accomplishments to celebrate the poor and the humble.
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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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Love God, love your neighbors, and do stuff!
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God’s never as nervous about our future, or as concerned about our past, as we are.
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Jesus never told His friends to play it safe.
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God delights in answering our impossible prayers.
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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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Great love leaves little doubt.
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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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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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Simply put: love does.
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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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If you get a no from somebody, don’t say, ‘I’m going to take this as some big cosmic signal.’ No, you just got a no, deal with it. Just go to the next step.
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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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