It’s easy to confuse a lot of activity with a purposeful life. Do what lasts; let the rest fall away.
BOB GOFFEvery 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.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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People who want to manipulate you will fear your joy, because it’s not easily controlled.
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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.
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We’re part of God’s much bigger plan for the whole world. Just like God’s Son arrived here, so did you. And after Jesus arrived, God whispered to all of humanity “It’s your move.
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We keep telling God our opinions; He keeps asking us about our hearts. We’ll grow the most when we have the right conversations.
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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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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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We keep asking for answers; God keeps sending us people.
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Grace works that way. It’s a kind word from a gentle person with an impossible prayer. It’s a force sometimes transmitted best hand to hand in a dark place.
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Live a life of conspicuous grace and courageous resolve.
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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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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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Insecurity wants us to keep track of our failures; grace doesn’t even write them down.
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We get to be God’s plan for the whole world by pointing people toward Him.
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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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God wants us to kick it down. Or perhaps just sit outside of it long enough until somebody tells us we can come in.
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