It will be the people with the greatest love, not the most information, who will influence us to change.
BOB GOFFThat’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.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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I used to be afraid of failing at something that really mattered to me, but now I’m more afraid of succeeding at things that don’t matter.
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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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The world will figure out what we really believe, by watching what we actually do.
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I learned that fully loving and fully living are not only synonymous but the kind of life that Jesus invited us to be part of.
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We plant sod where God wants 2 plant seed. He’s more interested in growing our character than having us look finished.
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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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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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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.
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We’ll fill our lives with what we cultivate the most. Plant grace by the acre.
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Love God. Love people. And do stuff. That’s my punch list everyday.
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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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You can quit anything on a Thursday.
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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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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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