Day turned to night, His friends scattered and death thought it had won. But heaven just started counting to three
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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The battle for our hearts is fought on the pages of our calendar.
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I used to want to fix people, but now I just want to be with them.
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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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Don’t let not knowing how it’ll end keep you from beginning. Uncertainty chases us out into the open where God is waiting.
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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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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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Courage isn’t the absence of fear, it’s just deciding that fear isn’t calling the shots anymore
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What would be the first thing I’d add back? Jesus. It sounds a little bit like a Sunday school answer, but that’s what I do. Then what’s the next thing? And I’d say, well, loving people. And then the next.
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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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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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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.
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The way we love people we disagree with is the best evidence of what we really believe.
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…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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We keep asking for answers; God keeps sending us people.
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Live a life of conspicuous grace and courageous resolve.
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