Stop doing what you’re able to do and figure out what you were made to do – then do lots of that.
BOB GOFFWe’ll never honor Christ if we forget how to honor each other.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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Do one thing that’s heroic for you today – big or small – and fear won’t define you anymore.
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We’ll fill our lives with what we cultivate the most. Plant grace by the acre.
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Jesus lets us be real with our life and our faith.
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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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Every time we see people as ordinary, we turn the wine back into water.
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…we need to stop plotting the course and instead just land the plane on our plans to make a difference by getting to the “do” part of faith.
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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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I used to think JESUS motivated us with ultimatums, but now I know He pursues us in LOVE.
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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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Something happens when you feel ownership. You no longer act like a spectator or consumer, because you’re an owner. Faith is at its best when it’s that way too. It’s best lived when it’s owned.
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I used to think you had to be special for God to use you, but now I know you simply need to say yes.
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Being engaged is a way of doing life, a way of living and loving. It’s about going to extremes and expressing the bright hope that life offers us.
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God made beauty so we’d know how He felt about us.
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What I’ve learned the more time I’ve spent following Jesus is that God delights in answering our impossible prayers.
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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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