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.
BOB GOFFWhat Jesus said we could do is leave typical behind.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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Here’s our job as believers, love everybody ALWAYS!
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The organization just said no to you. Find what it is that you were made to do and get on it! Go do what you were made to do.
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Most of us have all the information we need. What we need is more passion.
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When it feels like we need to choose between being right and being humble- pick both
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You don’t want to pick a fight with just the guy at the deli, [you want to] pick a fight somewhere in the world and just run towards it. Run because the fight is going to go on without you if you miss it.
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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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Grace means we can put the chalk away and stop keeping score!
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I never know what all of the steps are but I do know the next step.
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I don’t know every step I’m supposed to take. I think Jesus just wants me to take the next step.
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When you trust someone, you don’t need to know everything.
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Jesus never told His friends to play it safe.
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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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Cynicism is fear posing as confidence; joy is hope let off the leash.
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One thing I do is (and I realize this might sound nuts), every month or so, I try to take like an Etch-a-sketch [so to speak], and I clear my faith. I go to zero, clear the deck. And I start adding things back to my faith, one at a time.
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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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