Stop telling people how far they have left to go. Instead tell them how far they’ve come.
BOB GOFFWe’ll fill our lives with what we cultivate the most. Plant grace by the acre.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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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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Jesus is nuts about kids. He doesn’t seem to think much of lawyers which really lands close to home, but He’s nuts about kids and loves justice.
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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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Not 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.
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Most of us have all the information we need. What we need is more passion.
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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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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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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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Whimsy doesn’t care if you are the driver or the passenger; all that matters is that you are on your way.
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What distracts us will begin to define us. We don’t need to swing at every pitch.
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Love finds us where we are, not where we were.
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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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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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Simply put: love does.
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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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