People who want to manipulate you will fear your joy, because it’s not easily controlled.
BOB GOFFI 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.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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What would be the first thing I’d add back? Jesus. It sounds a little bit like a Sunday school answer, but that’s what I do. Then what’s the next thing? And I’d say, well, loving people. And then the next.
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Grace means we can put the chalk away and stop keeping score!
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That’s a prank. It has no shelf life, like reassembling the principal’s car up on the roof of the gym. It’s cute and everything but there’s no shelf-life, and it can actually be kind of destructive. But a caper is different. It’s something where everybody has made it in.
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We get to be God’s plan for the whole world by pointing people toward Him.
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God isn’t afraid of our doubts; He’s way more concerned when we fake it.
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What Jesus said we could do is leave typical behind.
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Love is never stationary.
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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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God keeps telling us to be not afraid, to go big
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We’ll become whoever we trust the most says we are.
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Figure out what fuels your joy, then do lots of that
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We can’t always see people’s pain; they can always feel our love.
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The way we love people we disagree with is the best evidence of what we really believe.
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The world will figure out what we really believe, by watching what we actually do.
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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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