Jesus won’t try to speak over the noise in our lives; love whispers so we won’t be confused about who’s doing the talking.
BOB GOFFLoving people the way Jesus did, means living a life of constant interruptions. Bring it.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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Whatever you’re aiming for, God’s better.
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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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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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Stop telling people how far they have left to go. Instead tell them how far they’ve come.
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When you are in high school, you don’t give much thought to what you can’t do. For most people, that gets learned later, and for still fewer, gets unlearned for the rest of life.
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Insecurity wants us to keep track of our failures; grace doesn’t even write them down.
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It will be the people with the greatest love, not the most information, who will influence us to change.
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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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He asks if we’ll give up that thing we’re so proud of, that thing we believe causes us to matter in the eyes of the world, and give it up to follow Him. He’s asking us, ‘Will you take what you think defines you, leave it behind, and let Me define who you are instead?’
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Love doesn’t just keep thinking about it or keep planning for it… Simply put: Love does!
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Grace means we don’t need to airbrush our lives to make them look like they’re working.
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I used to think I could learn about Jesus by studying Him, but now I know Jesus doesn’t want stalkers.
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We can’t always see people’s pain; they can always feel our love.
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Courage doesn’t mean we’re not afraid anymore, it just means our actions aren’t controlled by our doubts.
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Jesus never told His friends to play it safe.
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