Living a life fully engaged and full of whimsy and the kind of things that love does is something most people plan to do, but along the way they just kind of forget. Their dreams become one of those “we’ll go there next time” deferrals.
BOB GOFFI used to hope the things I did would work; now I hope they last.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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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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I don’t think success is what we’ve made of ourselves; I think it’s what we’ve made of others.
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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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You don’t want to pick a fight with just the guy at the deli, [you want to] pick a fight somewhere in the world and just run towards it. Run because the fight is going to go on without you if you miss it.
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The world will figure out what we really believe, by watching what we actually do.
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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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One thing I do is (and I realize this might sound nuts), every month or so, I try to take like an Etch-a-sketch [so to speak], and I clear my faith. I go to zero, clear the deck. And I start adding things back to my faith, one at a time.
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The way we treat people we disagree with most is a report card on what we’ve learned about love.
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Do what lasts, get around to everything else.
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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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When you trust someone, you don’t need to know everything.
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We’ll become whoever we trust the most says we are.
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We’ll fill our lives with what we cultivate the most. Plant grace by the acre.
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When it feels like we need to choose between being right and being humble- pick both
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Simply put: love does.
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Sometimes we ask God for help and God gives us hope, not because it’s different, but because it’s the same.
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Words people say not only have a shelf life but have the ability to shape life.
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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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It will be more love, not more information, that will change our hearts.
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The battle for our hearts is fought on the pages of our calendar.
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Small streams don’t plan to be mighty rivers. We just move in a direction; God decides what He’ll have us become.
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God finds us in the holes we dig for ourselves. We see failures; He sees foundations.
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Most of us have all the information we need. What we need is more passion.
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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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God makes confetti out of our titles and accomplishments to celebrate the poor and the humble.
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That’s what love does – it pursues blindly, unflinchingly, and without end. When you go after something you love, you’ll do anything it takes to get it, even if it costs everything.
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