We keep asking for answers; God keeps sending us people.
BOB GOFFWe won’t be like Jesus if it’s more important to us to be like each other. God doesn’t compare what he creates.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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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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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.
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What distracts us will begin to define us. We don’t need to swing at every pitch.
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I used to want to fix people, but now I just want to be with them.
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Love has the kind of power criticism only wishes it had.
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What I noticed, though, is almost every time I type the word love, it gets changed to the word live…
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Stop doing what you’re able to do and figure out what you were made to do – then do lots of that.
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If you’re following God and haven’t lost much of what you’ve been holding on to – follow a little closer.
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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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God finds us in the holes we dig for ourselves. We see failures; He sees foundations.
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Every time we see people as ordinary, we turn the wine back into water.
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If we only do what we’re familiar with, we might miss what we’ve been made for.
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I don’t think anyone aims to be typical, really. Most people even vow to themselves some time in high school or college not to be typical. But still, they just kind of loop back to it somehow.
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I once heard somebody say that God had closed a door on an opportunity they had hoped for. But I’ve always wondered if when we want to do something that we know is right and good,
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You don’t need a plan; you just need to be present.
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Don’t let other people decide who you are.
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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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Grace draws a circle around everyone and says they’re in.
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We’ll fill our lives with what we cultivate the most. Plant grace by the acre.
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Selfless love is always costly; fear can’t afford it, pride doesn’t understand it and friends never forget it.
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No book is a chapter, no chapter tells the whole story, no mistake defines who we are. Hope makes our lives page turners.
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Fix your eyes on Jesus; it’s ok to stare.
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God delights in answering our impossible prayers.
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Being engaged is a way of doing life, a way of living and loving. It’s about going to extremes and expressing the bright hope that life offers us.
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Grace means we don’t need to airbrush our lives to make them look like they’re working.
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Grace means we can put the chalk away and stop keeping score!
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