God wants us to kick it down. Or perhaps just sit outside of it long enough until somebody tells us we can come in.
BOB GOFFNobody turns down an invitation to the White House, but I’ve seen plenty of people turn down an invitation to fully live.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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What I’ve learned the more time I’ve spent following Jesus is that God delights in answering our impossible prayers.
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Here’s our job as believers, love everybody ALWAYS!
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That’s one of those things about love. It always assumes it can find a way to express itself.
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Every day God invites us on the same kind of adventure. It’s not a trip where He sends us a rigid itinerary, He simply invites us.
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Something happens when you feel ownership. You no longer act like a spectator or consumer, because you’re an owner. Faith is at its best when it’s that way too. It’s best lived when it’s owned.
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We determine how much influence we’ll have, when we decide how available we’ll be.
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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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Live a life of conspicuous grace and courageous resolve.
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Cynicism is fear posing as confidence; joy is hope let off the leash.
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Figure out what fuels your joy, then do lots of that
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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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If you get a no from somebody, don’t say, ‘I’m going to take this as some big cosmic signal.’ No, you just got a no, deal with it. Just go to the next step.
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We keep asking for answers; God keeps sending us people.
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Stop doing what you’re able to do and figure out what you were made to do – then do lots of that.
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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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