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.
BOB GOFFLoving people the way Jesus did, means living a life of constant interruptions. Bring it.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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Next to grace, I bet God thinks making us need each other was one of His best ideas.
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Jesus is nuts about kids. He doesn’t seem to think much of lawyers which really lands close to home, but He’s nuts about kids and loves justice.
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We can’t always see people’s pain; they can always feel our love.
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Fear will give us a reason not to try; hope will give us a reason not to listen.
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Love God, love your neighbors, and do stuff!
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See people for who they’re becoming. Not who they were.
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Do what lasts, get around to everything else.
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Living a life of following Christ means constant interruptions.
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You don’t want to pick a fight with just the guy at the deli, [you want to] pick a fight somewhere in the world and just run towards it. Run because the fight is going to go on without you if you miss it.
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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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Love finds us where we are, not where we were.
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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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God made beauty so we’d know how He felt about us.
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Insecurity wants us to keep track of our failures; grace doesn’t even write them down.
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I’m all for getting together with men and women in small groups around Scripture and letting it just wash over us, but for me, I’ve been meeting with the same ten guys for like 15 years now, but we don’t have a Bible study every Friday, we have a Bible doing.
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