Every 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.
BOB GOFFLoving people the way Jesus did, means living a life of constant interruptions. Bring it.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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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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Jesus never told His friends to play it safe.
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Whatever you’re aiming for, God’s better.
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But the kind of love that God created and demonstrated is a costly one because it involves sacrifice and presence. It’s a love that operates more like a sign language than being spoken outright.
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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 finds us in the holes we dig for ourselves. We see failures; He sees foundations.
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Fix your eyes on Jesus; it’s ok to stare.
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God asks what it is He’s made us to love, what it is that captures our attention, what feeds that deep indescribable need of our souls to experience the richness of the world He made. And then, leaning over us, He whispers, “Let’s go do that together.
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Grace means we can put the chalk away and stop keeping score!
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Don’t let other people decide who you are.
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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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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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When you trust someone, you don’t need to know everything.
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We won’t be distracted by comparison if we’re captivated with purpose.
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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.
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