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Stop telling people how far they have left to go. Instead tell them how far they’ve come.

Bob Goff

I learned that fully loving and fully living are not only synonymous but the kind of life that Jesus invited us to be part of.
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Fully Invited Learn Living Part
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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Already Amusement Circular Park Predictability Train
Stand up like a mountain; have faith like a rock; love like an avalanche
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Faith Mountain Rocks Stand
Love God. Love people. And do stuff. That’s my punch list everyday.
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Day Every People Stuff
Nobody turns down an invitation to the White House, but I’ve seen plenty of people turn down an invitation to fully live.
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House People White
When you trust someone, you don’t need to know everything.
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Knows Needs Something Trust
When love is a theory, it’s safe, it’s free of risk. But love in the brain changes nothing.
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Brain Love Risk
People who want to manipulate you will fear your joy, because it’s not easily controlled.
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Joy People Want
There’s a lot to be concerned about; there’s more to be hopeful for.
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Concerned Hopeful Lot More
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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Bible Friday Guy Men Scripture Years
We plant sod where God wants 2 plant seed. He’s more interested in growing our character than having us look finished.
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Character Growing Looks
Every time we see people as ordinary, we turn the wine back into water.
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Ordinary People Water Wine
Jesus never told His friends to play it safe.
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Friends Jesus Play Safe
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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Jesus Month Realize School Zero
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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Awesomeness Everyone Somehow Surprise
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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Moving Rivers Streams

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