When you love people like Jesus, you get messy. But messy looks good on you!
BOB GOFFI used to hope the things I did would work; now I hope they last.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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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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It’s easy to confuse a lot of activity with a purposeful life. Do what lasts; let the rest fall away.
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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 try to be efficient; when it is most extravagant, it is least wasted.
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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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Cynicism is fear posing as confidence; joy is hope let off the leash.
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It has always seemed to me that broken things, just like broken people, get used more; it’s probably because God has more pieces to work with.
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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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I once heard somebody say that God had closed a door on an opportunity they had hoped for. But I’ve always wondered if when we want to do something that we know is right and good,
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Living a life of following Christ means constant interruptions.
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The battle for our hearts is fought on the pages of our calendar.
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Love has the kind of power criticism only wishes it had.
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Like 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.
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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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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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