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.
BOB GOFFThat’s one of the things about love. It doesn’t recognize boundaries and never obeys the rules we try to give it.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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A hope that makes us brave and expels darkness with light. That’s what I want my life to be all about – full of abandon, whimsy, and in love.
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Grace works that way. It’s a kind word from a gentle person with an impossible prayer. It’s a force sometimes transmitted best hand to hand in a dark place.
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What distracts us will begin to define us. We don’t need to swing at every pitch.
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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 never honor Christ if we forget how to honor each other.
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Grace draws a circle around everyone and says they’re in.
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I never know what all of the steps are but I do know the next step.
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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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God makes confetti out of our titles and accomplishments to celebrate the poor and the humble.
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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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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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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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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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God doesn’t break things so He can fix them; He fixes broken things so He can use them.
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I know that sounds so circular, but for you, what you were made to do, is different than what I was made to do.
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