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 GOFFIt 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.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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Stop telling people how far they have left to go. Instead tell them how far they’ve come.
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Surround yourself with prompts that remind you who Jesus is.
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Loving people the way Jesus did, means living a life of constant interruptions. Bring it.
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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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The way we treat people we disagree with most is a report card on what we’ve learned about love.
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We need to wash the feet of our enemies.
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Not surprisingly, we’d get a lot more done too, because we wouldn’t care who’s looking or taking credit. All that energy would be funnelled into awesomeness.
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Sometimes we ask God for help and God gives us hope, not because it’s different, but because it’s the same.
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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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Live your life like you’re exactly who Jesus thinks you are.
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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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When you trust someone, you don’t need to know everything.
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I used to think you had to be special for God to use you, but now I know you simply need to say yes.
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When love is a theory, it’s safe, it’s free of risk. But love in the brain changes nothing.
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We determine how much influence we’ll have, when we decide how available we’ll be.
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