I used to think you had to be special for God to use you, but now I know you simply need to say yes.
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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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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We’ll become whoever we trust the most says we are.
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You don’t need a plan; you just need to be present.
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We’ll fill our lives with what we cultivate the most. Plant grace by the acre.
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That’s one of the things about love. It doesn’t recognize boundaries and never obeys the rules we try to give it.
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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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Like the circular rails of a train at an amusement park, the scripts we know offer a brand of security, of predictability, of safety for us. But the problem is, they only take us where we’ve already been.
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Grace means we can put the chalk away and stop keeping score!
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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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God makes confetti out of our titles and accomplishments to celebrate the poor and the humble.
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The battle for our hearts is fought on the pages of our calendar.
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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.
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Cynicism is fear posing as confidence; joy is hope let off the leash.
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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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They loop us back to places where everyone can easily go, not necessarily where we were made to go. Living a different kind of life takes some guts and grit and a new way of seeing things.
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