I used to think JESUS motivated us with ultimatums, but now I know He pursues us in LOVE.
BOB GOFFThe way we deal with uncertainty says a lot about whether Jesus is ahead of us leading, or behind us just carrying our stuff.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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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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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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I know that sounds so circular, but for you, what you were made to do, is different than what I was made to do.
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We’ll become whoever we trust the most says we are.
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The most beautiful scenery in the world is when our friends come into view.
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Stand up like a mountain; have faith like a rock; love like an avalanche
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I never know what all of the steps are but I do know the next step.
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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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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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God keeps telling us to be not afraid, to go big
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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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Love God. Love people. And do stuff. That’s my punch list everyday.
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Living a life of following Christ means constant interruptions.
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Living a life fully engaged in 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.
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We can’t always see people’s pain; they can always feel our love.
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