Most people need love and acceptance a lot more than they need advice.
BOB GOFFPeople who want to manipulate you will fear your joy, because it’s not easily controlled.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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For those who resonate with formulas, here it is: add your whole life, your loves, your passions, and your interests together with what God said He wants us to be about, and that’s your answer.
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Love God, love your neighbors, and do stuff!
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Fear will give us a reason not to try; hope will give us a reason not to listen.
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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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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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That’s one of the things about love. It doesn’t recognize boundaries and never obeys the rules we try to give it.
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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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…we need to stop plotting the course and instead just land the plane on our plans to make a difference by getting to the “do” part of faith.
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Great love leaves little doubt.
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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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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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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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Love doesn’t try to be efficient; when it is most extravagant, it is least wasted.
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Jesus never told His friends to play it safe.
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