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 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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We’ll never honor Christ if we forget how to honor each other.
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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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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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God’s never as nervous about our future, or as concerned about our past, as we are.
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Most of us have all the information we need. What we need is more passion.
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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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If we only do what we’re familiar with, we might miss what we’ve been made for.
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Small streams don’t plan to be mighty rivers. We just move in a direction; God decides what He’ll have us become.
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Live your life like you’re exactly who Jesus thinks you are.
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Love finds us where we are, not where we were.
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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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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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We’ll fill our lives with what we cultivate the most. Plant grace by the acre.
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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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If you’re following God and haven’t lost much of what you’ve been holding on to – follow a little closer.
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