Don’t let other people decide who you are.
BOB GOFFNot 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.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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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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Love like there’s no tomorrow; live like there’s no yesterday. We’re forgiven; now go love people like we believe it
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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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That’s one of those things about love. It always assumes it can find a way to express itself.
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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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Love has the kind of power criticism only wishes it had.
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Every time we see people as ordinary, we turn the wine back into water.
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Do what lasts, get around to everything else.
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Nobody turns down an invitation to the White House, but I’ve seen plenty of people turn down an invitation to fully live.
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Figure out what fuels your joy, then do lots of that
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People who want to manipulate you will fear your joy, because it’s not easily controlled.
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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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Selfless love is always costly; fear can’t afford it, pride doesn’t understand it and friends never forget it.
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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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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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