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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More Bob Goff Quotes
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Do less of what you’re terrible at and more of what you’re good at. I don’t know if that sounds too simple, but it’s been working for me.
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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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Courage doesn’t mean we’re not afraid anymore, it just means our actions aren’t controlled by our doubts.
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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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What 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.
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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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Don’t let not knowing how it’ll end keep you from beginning. Uncertainty chases us out into the open where God is waiting.
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Jesus won’t try to speak over the noise in our lives; love whispers so we won’t be confused about who’s doing the talking.
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Live a life of conspicuous grace and courageous resolve.
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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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Surround yourself with prompts that remind you who Jesus is.
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If we only do what we’re familiar with, we might miss what we’ve been made for.
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That’s a prank. It has no shelf life, like reassembling the principal’s car up on the roof of the gym. It’s cute and everything but there’s no shelf-life, and it can actually be kind of destructive. But a caper is different. It’s something where everybody has made it in.
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Day turned to night, His friends scattered and death thought it had won. But heaven just started counting to three
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That’s what love does – it pursues blindly, unflinchingly, and without end. When you go after something you love, you’ll do anything it takes to get it, even if it costs everything.
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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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Sometimes we ask God for help and God gives us hope, not because it’s different, but because it’s the same.
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God’s never as nervous about our future, or as concerned about our past, as we are.
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We’re part of God’s much bigger plan for the whole world. Just like God’s Son arrived here, so did you. And after Jesus arrived, God whispered to all of humanity “It’s your move.
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I used to think I could learn about Jesus by studying Him, but now I know Jesus doesn’t want stalkers.
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God made beauty so we’d know how He felt about us.
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We’ll never honor Christ if we forget how to honor each other.
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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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Courage isn’t the absence of fear, it’s just deciding that fear isn’t calling the shots anymore
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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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We’re all amateurs when it comes to love. Don’t be too hard on each other.
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