That’s what love does – it pursues blindly, unflinchingly, and without end. When you go after something you love, you’ll do anything it takes to get it, even if it costs everything.
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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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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Love like there’s no tomorrow; live like there’s no yesterday. We’re forgiven; now go love people like we believe it
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Whimsy doesn’t care if you are the driver or the passenger; all that matters is that you are on your way.
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They loop us back to places where everyone can easily go, not necessarily where we were made to go. Living a different kind of life takes some guts and grit and a new way of seeing things.
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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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God made beauty so we’d know how He felt about us.
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When it feels like we need to choose between being right and being humble- pick both
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Most of us have all the information we need. What we need is more passion.
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We need to make our faith our very own love story.
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I used to think God guided us by opening and closing doors, but now I know sometimes God wants us to kick some doors down.
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Most people need love and acceptance a lot more than they need advice.
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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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Grace draws a circle around everyone and says they’re in.
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Nobody turns down an invitation to the White House, but I’ve seen plenty of people turn down an invitation to fully live.
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Figure out what fuels your joy, then do lots of that
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Surround yourself with prompts that remind you who Jesus is.
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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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The real game of Bigger and Better that Jesus is playing with us usually isn’t about money or possessions or even our hopes. It’s about our pride.
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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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I never know what all of the steps are but I do know the next step.
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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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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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The teachers I’ve learned the most from, didn’t think they were teaching me; they just thought we were friends.
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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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When you love people like Jesus, you get messy. But messy looks good on you!
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Love God, love your neighbors, and do stuff!
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