Insecurity wants us to keep track of our failures; grace doesn’t even write them down.
BOB GOFFLike the circular rails of a train at an amusement park, the scripts we know offer a brand of security, of predictability, of safety for us. But the problem is, they only take us where we’ve already been.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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Figure out what fuels your joy, then do lots of that
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Day turned to night, His friends scattered and death thought it had won. But heaven just started counting to three
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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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Most of us have all the information we need. What we need is more passion.
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It will be more love, not more information, that will change our hearts.
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But instead of spending all of our time having Bible studies about what we were made to do, go do stuff and you’ll figure out what you were made to do, because you’ll be great at some things and you’ll be terrible at others.
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I used to be afraid of failing at something that really mattered to me, but now I’m more afraid of succeeding at things that don’t matter.
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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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Love finds us where we are, not where we were.
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We won’t be like Jesus if it’s more important to us to be like each other. God doesn’t compare what he creates.
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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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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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Living a life fully engaged in 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.
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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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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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