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.
BOB GOFFStop doing what you’re able to do and figure out what you were made to do – then do lots of that.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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Fix your eyes on Jesus; it’s ok to stare.
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Whatever you’re aiming for, God’s better.
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We need to wash the feet of our enemies.
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When you love people like Jesus, you get messy. But messy looks good on you!
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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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I used to think life could be shared with anyone, but now I know choosing the right people is pretty important.
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People who want to manipulate you will fear your joy, because it’s not easily controlled.
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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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It will be more love, not more information, that will change our hearts.
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Grace draws a circle around everyone and says they’re in.
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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 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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A hope that makes us brave and expels darkness with light. That’s what I want my life to be all about – full of abandon, whimsy, and in love.
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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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God doesn’t break things so He can fix them; He fixes broken things so He can use them.
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Do one thing that’s heroic for you today – big or small – and fear won’t define you anymore.
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Simply put: love does.
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No book is a chapter, no chapter tells the whole story, no mistake defines who we are. Hope makes our lives page turners.
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We get to be God’s plan for the whole world by pointing people toward Him.
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I used to think God guided us by opening and closing doors, but now I know sometimes God wants us to kick some doors down.
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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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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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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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See people for who they’re becoming. Not who they were.
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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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Words people say not only have a shelf life but have the ability to shape life.
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