God’s never as nervous about our future, or as concerned about our past, as we are.
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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I never know what all of the steps are but I do know the next step.
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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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When love is a theory, it’s safe, it’s free of risk. But love in the brain changes nothing.
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We won’t figure out what’s sacred in life if we settle for what’s safe.
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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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Insecurity wants us to keep track of our failures; grace doesn’t even write them down.
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God made beauty so we’d know how He felt about us.
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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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It will be the people with the greatest love, not the most information, who will influence us to change.
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He asks if we’ll give up that thing we’re so proud of, that thing we believe causes us to matter in the eyes of the world, and give it up to follow Him. He’s asking us, ‘Will you take what you think defines you, leave it behind, and let Me define who you are instead?’
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We’ll become whoever we trust the most says we are.
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The real game of Bigger and Better that Jesus is playing with us usually isn’t about money or possessions or even our hopes. It’s about our pride.
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We might be known for what we believed, but we’re certain to be remembered for what we did about it.
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God keeps telling us to be not afraid, to go big
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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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