Insecurity wants us to keep track of our failures; grace doesn’t even write them down.
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 used to think you had to be special for God to use you, but now I know you simply need to say yes.
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Love doesn’t just keep thinking about it or keep planning for it… Simply put: Love does!
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Do what lasts, get around to everything else.
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The most beautiful scenery in the world is when our friends come into view.
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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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Stop doing what you’re able to do and figure out what you were made to do – then do lots of that.
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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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Fix your eyes on Jesus; it’s ok to stare.
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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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We can’t always see people’s pain; they can always feel our love.
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The way we treat people we disagree with most is a report card on what we’ve learned about love.
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God wants us to kick it down. Or perhaps just sit outside of it long enough until somebody tells us we can come in.
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Loving people the way Jesus did, means living a life of constant interruptions. Bring it.
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The way we deal with uncertainty says a lot about whether Jesus is ahead of us leading, or behind us just carrying our stuff.
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Small streams don’t plan to be mighty rivers. We just move in a direction; God decides what He’ll have us become.
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God delights in answering our impossible prayers.
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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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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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Living a life fully engaged and 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. Their dreams become one of those “we’ll go there next time” deferrals.
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Love doesn’t try to be efficient; when it is most extravagant, it is least wasted.
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Next to grace, I bet God thinks making us need each other was one of His best ideas.
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I once heard somebody say that God had closed a door on an opportunity they had hoped for. But I’ve always wondered if when we want to do something that we know is right and good,
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Living a life of following Christ means constant interruptions.
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Cynicism is fear posing as confidence; joy is hope let off the leash.
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Love has the kind of power criticism only wishes it had.
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