We determine how much influence we’ll have, when we decide how available we’ll be.
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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Cynicism is fear posing as confidence; joy is hope let off the leash.
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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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Grace works that way. It’s a kind word from a gentle person with an impossible prayer. It’s a force sometimes transmitted best hand to hand in a dark place.
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We get to be God’s plan for the whole world by pointing people toward Him.
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What Jesus said we could do is leave typical behind.
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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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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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Grace draws a circle around everyone and says they’re in.
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Like the circular rails of a train at an amusement park, the scripts we know offer a brand of security, of predictability, of safety for us. But the problem is, they only take us where we’ve already been.
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We spend a lot of energy remembering failures God spent a lot of love saying we could forget.
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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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Fear will give us a reason not to try; hope will give us a reason not to listen.
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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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…we need to stop plotting the course and instead just land the plane on our plans to make a difference by getting to the “do” part of faith.
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Surround yourself with prompts that remind you who Jesus is.
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