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.
BOB GOFFSurround yourself with prompts that remind you who Jesus is.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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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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We’ll fill our lives with what we cultivate the most. Plant grace by the acre.
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Every day God invites us on the same kind of adventure. It’s not a trip where He sends us a rigid itinerary, He simply invites us.
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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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Fear will give us a reason not to try; hope will give us a reason not to listen.
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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 places that desire deep in our hearts because He wants it for us and it honors Him. Maybe there are times when we think a door has been closed and, instead of misinterpreting the circumstances,
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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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Words people say not only have a shelf life but have the ability to shape life.
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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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He asks if we’ll give up that thing we’re so proud of, that thing we believe causes us to matter in the eyes of the world, and give it up to follow Him. He’s asking us, ‘Will you take what you think defines you, leave it behind, and let Me define who you are instead?’
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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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Don’t let other people decide who you are.
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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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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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