I don’t think success is what we’ve made of ourselves; I think it’s what we’ve made of others.
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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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.
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God finds us in the holes we dig for ourselves. We see failures; He sees foundations.
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God isn’t afraid of our doubts; He’s way more concerned when we fake it.
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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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Day turned to night, His friends scattered and death thought it had won. But heaven just started counting to three
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When love is a theory, it’s safe, it’s free of risk. But love in the brain changes nothing.
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The teachers I’ve learned the most from, didn’t think they were teaching me; they just thought we were friends.
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Nobody turns down an invitation to the White House, but I’ve seen plenty of people turn down an invitation to fully live.
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I used to think life could be shared with anyone, but now I know choosing the right people is pretty important.
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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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Not surprisingly, we’d get a lot more done too, because we wouldn’t care who’s looking or taking credit. All that energy would be funnelled into awesomeness.
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It has always seemed to me that broken things, just like broken people, get used more; it’s probably because God has more pieces to work with.
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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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That’s what love does – it pursues blindly, unflinchingly, and without end. When you go after something you love, you’ll do anything it takes to get it, even if it costs everything.
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We’re all amateurs when it comes to love. Don’t be too hard on each other.
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