Stop telling people how far they have left to go. Instead tell them how far they’ve come.
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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You don’t need a plan; you just need to be present.
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Jesus lets us be real with our life and our faith.
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Selfless love is always costly; fear can’t afford it, pride doesn’t understand it and friends never forget it.
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Most people need love and acceptance a lot more than they need advice.
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Next to grace, I bet God thinks making us need each other was one of His best ideas.
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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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I think of the church as this bride of Christ, who is incredibly capable of doing amazing things. And so where we see injustice, we come, not with fists clenched but with palms up.
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Great love leaves little doubt.
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God places that desire deep in our hearts because He wants it for us and it honors Him. Maybe there are times when we think a door has been closed and, instead of misinterpreting the circumstances,
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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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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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Love God, love your neighbors, and do stuff!
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I used to think God guided us by opening and closing doors, but now I know sometimes God wants us to kick some doors down.
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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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The organization just said no to you. Find what it is that you were made to do and get on it! Go do what you were made to do.
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