If you’re following God and haven’t lost much of what you’ve been holding on to – follow a little closer.
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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We need to make our faith our very own love story.
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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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God asks what it is He’s made us to love, what it is that captures our attention, what feeds that deep indescribable need of our souls to experience the richness of the world He made. And then, leaning over us, He whispers, “Let’s go do that together.
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God wants us to kick it down. Or perhaps just sit outside of it long enough until somebody tells us we can come in.
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Cynicism is fear posing as confidence; joy is hope let off the leash.
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Love God, love your neighbors, and do stuff!
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God’s never as nervous about our future, or as concerned about our past, as we are.
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The way we deal with uncertainty says a lot about whether Jesus is ahead of us leading, or behind us just carrying our stuff.
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We keep asking for answers; God keeps sending us people.
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The battle for our hearts is fought on the pages of our calendar.
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When it feels like we need to choose between being right and being humble- pick both
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God delights in answering our impossible prayers.
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For those who resonate with formulas, here it is: add your whole life, your loves, your passions, and your interests together with what God said He wants us to be about, and that’s your answer.
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They loop us back to places where everyone can easily go, not necessarily where we were made to go. Living a different kind of life takes some guts and grit and a new way of seeing things.
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When love is a theory, it’s safe, it’s free of risk. But love in the brain changes nothing.
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