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Nobody turns down an invitation to the White House, but I’ve seen plenty of people turn down an invitation to fully live.

Bob Goff

We determine how much influence we’ll have, when we decide how available we’ll be.
BOB GOFF

Available Determine Influence
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 GOFF

Attitude Dream Love Something
Jesus lets us be real with our life and our faith.
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Being Faith Jesus Real
The way we deal with uncertainty says a lot about whether Jesus is ahead of us leading, or behind us just carrying our stuff.
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Carrying Jesus Stuff Way
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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Different Sound Stuff
We spend a lot of energy remembering failures God spent a lot of love saying we could forget.
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Energy Forget Remember
Love finds us where we are, not where we were.
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Emotion Find Love Trust
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.
BOB GOFF

Jesus Month Realize School Zero
I used to hope the things I did would work; now I hope they last.
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Hope Lasts Used Work
…we need to stop plotting the course and instead just land the plane on our plans to make a difference by getting to the “do” part of faith.
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Differences Land Making Remember
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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Teacher Teaching Thinking
We can’t always see people’s pain; they can always feel our love.
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Love Our Pain People
God keeps telling us to be not afraid, to go big
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Afraid Bigs Telling
Most people need love and acceptance a lot more than they need advice.
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Acceptance Healing Motivational
What Jesus said we could do is leave typical behind.
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Jesus Said Typical
Stop telling people how far they have left to go. Instead tell them how far they’ve come.
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Come Left People
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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Find Made Organisation Say
I used to want to fix people, but now I just want to be with them.
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People Used Want
We can be the light of the world without leaving our high beams on and annoying everybody.
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Annoy Everybody Leaving Light World
When you love people like Jesus, you get messy. But messy looks good on you!
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Jesus Looks People Typical
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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Actual Cute Destructive Everything Prank Principle
We need to wash the feet of our enemies.
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Enemy Feet Needs
Living a life of following Christ means constant interruptions.
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Christ Constant Following Mean
Courage isn’t the absence of fear, it’s just deciding that fear isn’t calling the shots anymore
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Absence Calling Shots
We won’t be distracted by comparison if we’re captivated with purpose.
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Captivated Distracted Purpose
It’s easy to confuse a lot of activity with a purposeful life. Do what lasts; let the rest fall away.
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Easy Fall Lasts
Do less of what you’re terrible at and more of what you’re good at. I don’t know if that sounds too simple, but it’s been working for me.
BOB GOFF

Simple Sound Terrible

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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