Love God. Love people. And do stuff. That’s my punch list everyday.
BOB GOFFThat’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.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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Being engaged is a way of doing life, a way of living and loving. It’s about going to extremes and expressing the bright hope that life offers us.
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What Jesus said we could do is leave typical behind.
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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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When you trust someone, you don’t need to know everything.
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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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Love like there’s no tomorrow; live like there’s no yesterday. We’re forgiven; now go love people like we believe it
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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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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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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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We spend a lot of energy remembering failures God spent a lot of love saying we could forget.
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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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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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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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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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I don’t think success is what we’ve made of ourselves; I think it’s what we’ve made of others.
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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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It will be the people with the greatest love, not the most information, who will influence us to change.
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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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If you get a no from somebody, don’t say, ‘I’m going to take this as some big cosmic signal.’ No, you just got a no, deal with it. Just go to the next step.
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Grace means we can put the chalk away and stop keeping score!
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I know that sounds so circular, but for you, what you were made to do, is different than what I was made to do.
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Every time we see people as ordinary, we turn the wine back into water.
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Live your life like you’re exactly who Jesus thinks you are.
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We won’t be distracted by comparison if we’re captivated with purpose.
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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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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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