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.
BOB GOFFSurround yourself with prompts that remind you who Jesus is.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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Loving people the way Jesus did, means living a life of constant interruptions. Bring it.
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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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I used to think God wouldn’t talk to me, but now I know I’m just selective with what I choose to hear.
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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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The way we love people we disagree with is the best evidence of what we really believe.
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When you trust someone, you don’t need to know everything.
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God asks what it is He’s made us to love, what it is that captures our attention, what feeds that deep indescribable need of our souls to experience the richness of the world He made. And then, leaning over us, He whispers, “Let’s go do that together.
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The battle for our hearts is fought on the pages of our calendar.
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Grace means we don’t need to airbrush our lives to make them look like they’re working.
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We get to be God’s plan for the whole world by pointing people toward Him.
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That’s one of the things about love. It doesn’t recognize boundaries and never obeys the rules we try to give it.
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I’m all for getting together with men and women in small groups around Scripture and letting it just wash over us, but for me, I’ve been meeting with the same ten guys for like 15 years now, but we don’t have a Bible study every Friday, we have a Bible doing.
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When it feels like we need to choose between being right and being humble- pick both
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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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People who want to manipulate you will fear your joy, because it’s not easily controlled.
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Love God. Love people. And do stuff. That’s my punch list everyday.
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Surround yourself with prompts that remind you who Jesus is.
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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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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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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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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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We all want to have a place where we can dream and escape anything that wraps steel bands around our imagination and creativity.
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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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We won’t figure out what’s sacred in life if we settle for what’s safe.
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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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Whatever you’re aiming for, God’s better.
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