We’re all amateurs when it comes to love. Don’t be too hard on each other.
BOB GOFFWhat Jesus said we could do is leave typical behind.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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When you trust someone, you don’t need to know everything.
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Love is never stationary.
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But instead of spending all of our time having Bible studies about what we were made to do, go do stuff and you’ll figure out what you were made to do, because you’ll be great at some things and you’ll be terrible at others.
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It has always seemed to me that broken things, just like broken people, get used more; it’s probably because God has more pieces to work with.
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Living a life fully engaged and full of whimsy and the kind of things that love does is something most people plan to do, but along the way they just kind of forget. Their dreams become one of those “we’ll go there next time” deferrals.
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Most people need love and acceptance a lot more than they need advice.
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I used to think JESUS motivated us with ultimatums, but now I know He pursues us in LOVE.
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I used to want to fix people, but now I just want to be with them.
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When you love people like Jesus, you get messy. But messy looks good on you!
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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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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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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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See people for who they’re becoming. Not who they were.
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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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Whatever you’re aiming for, God’s better.
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