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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.

Bob Goff

Fear will give us a reason not to try; hope will give us a reason not to listen.
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Giving Reason Trying
Figure out what fuels your joy, then do lots of that
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Figures Fuel Joy
God places that desire deep in our hearts because He wants it for us and it honors Him. Maybe there are times when we think a door has been closed and, instead of misinterpreting the circumstances,
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Circumstances Close God Instead
We can’t always see people’s pain; they can always feel our love.
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Love Our Pain People
Stop telling people how far they have left to go. Instead tell them how far they’ve come.
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Come Left People
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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Actual Cute Destructive Everything Prank Principle
I used to think God wouldn’t talk to me, but now I know I’m just selective with what I choose to hear.
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Choose Talk Thinking Used
God keeps telling us to be not afraid, to go big
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Afraid Bigs Telling
Courage isn’t the absence of fear, it’s just deciding that fear isn’t calling the shots anymore
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Absence Calling Shots
We get to be God’s plan for the whole world by pointing people toward Him.
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God People Plan World
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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Church Fists Thinking
The way we deal with uncertainty says a lot about whether Jesus is ahead of us leading, or behind us just carrying our stuff.
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Carrying Jesus Stuff Way
We won’t be like Jesus if it’s more important to us to be like each other. God doesn’t compare what he creates.
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Compare Important Jesus
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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Kind Language Sacrifice Sign
Live a life of conspicuous grace and courageous resolve.
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Courageous Grace Resolve
People who want to manipulate you will fear your joy, because it’s not easily controlled.
BOB GOFF

Joy People Want

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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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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