We need to wash the feet of our enemies.
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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Jesus won’t try to speak over the noise in our lives; love whispers so we won’t be confused about who’s doing the talking.
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Living a life of following Christ means constant interruptions.
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It will be more love, not more information, that will change our hearts.
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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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Do what lasts, get around to everything else.
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Cynicism is fear posing as confidence; joy is hope let off the leash.
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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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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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When you love people like Jesus, you get messy. But messy looks good on you!
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But the kind of love that God created and demonstrated is a costly one because it involves sacrifice and presence. It’s a love that operates more like a sign language than being spoken outright.
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Grace works that way. It’s a kind word from a gentle person with an impossible prayer. It’s a force sometimes transmitted best hand to hand in a dark place.
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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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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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I used to think JESUS motivated us with ultimatums, but now I know He pursues us in LOVE.
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You can quit anything on a Thursday.
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