Courage isn’t the absence of fear, it’s just deciding that fear isn’t calling the shots anymore
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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Love is never stationary.
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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.
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I used to think I could learn about Jesus by studying Him, but now I know Jesus doesn’t want stalkers.
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It will be the people with the greatest love, not the most information, who will influence us to change.
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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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Something happens when you feel ownership. You no longer act like a spectator or consumer, because you’re an owner. Faith is at its best when it’s that way too. It’s best lived when it’s owned.
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The most beautiful scenery in the world is when our friends come into view.
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What would be the first thing I’d add back? Jesus. It sounds a little bit like a Sunday school answer, but that’s what I do. Then what’s the next thing? And I’d say, well, loving people. And then the next.
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I think of the church as this bride of Christ, who is incredibly capable of doing amazing things. And so where we see injustice, we come, not with fists clenched but with palms up.
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Don’t let not knowing how it’ll end keep you from beginning. Uncertainty chases us out into the open where God is waiting.
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Jesus lets us be real with our life and our faith.
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I used to hope the things I did would work; now I hope they last.
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We can’t always see people’s pain; they can always feel our love.
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Do one thing that’s heroic for you today – big or small – and fear won’t define you anymore.
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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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