Most people need love and acceptance a lot more than they need advice.
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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God doesn’t break things so He can fix them; He fixes broken things so He can use them.
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When you love people like Jesus, you get messy. But messy looks good on you!
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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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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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Jesus never told His friends to play it safe.
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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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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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Next to grace, I bet God thinks making us need each other was one of His best ideas.
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We need to wash the feet of our enemies.
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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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Insecurity wants us to keep track of our failures; grace doesn’t even write them down.
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God delights in answering our impossible prayers.
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We’ll fill our lives with what we cultivate the most. Plant grace by the acre.
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We can be the light of the world without leaving our high beams on and annoying everybody.
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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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Fear will give us a reason not to try; hope will give us a reason not to listen.
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Love doesn’t just keep thinking about it or keep planning for it… Simply put: Love does!
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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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We spend a lot of energy remembering failures God spent a lot of love saying we could forget.
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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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Love finds us where we are, not where we were.
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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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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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God isn’t afraid of our doubts; He’s way more concerned when we fake it.
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Courage doesn’t mean we’re not afraid anymore, it just means our actions aren’t controlled by our doubts.
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Jesus lets us be real with our life and our faith.
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