We won’t figure out what’s sacred in life if we settle for what’s safe.
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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The way we love people we disagree with is the best evidence of what we really believe.
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Words people say not only have a shelf life but have the ability to shape life.
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When you trust someone, you don’t need to know everything.
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For those who resonate with formulas, here it is: add your whole life, your loves, your passions, and your interests together with what God said He wants us to be about, and that’s your answer.
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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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Being engaged is a way of doing life, a way of living and loving. It’s about going to extremes and expressing the bright hope that life offers us.
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Do what lasts, get around to everything else.
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Grace means we don’t need to airbrush our lives to make them look like they’re working.
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We can be the light of the world without leaving our high beams on and annoying everybody.
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Jesus lets us be real with our life and our faith.
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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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God’s never as nervous about our future, or as concerned about our past, as we are.
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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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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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Something happens when you feel ownership. You no longer act like a spectator or consumer, because you’re an owner. Faith is at its best when it’s that way too. It’s best lived when it’s owned.
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