Selfless love is always costly; fear can’t afford it, pride doesn’t understand it and friends never forget it.
BOB GOFFBut 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.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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What I noticed, though, is almost every time I type the word love, it gets changed to the word live…
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I used to think I could learn about Jesus by studying Him, but now I know Jesus doesn’t want stalkers.
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Live a life of conspicuous grace and courageous resolve.
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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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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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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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When love is a theory, it’s safe, it’s free of risk. But love in the brain changes nothing.
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We’ll become whoever we trust the most says we are.
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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 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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What would be the first thing I’d add back? Jesus. It sounds a little bit like a Sunday school answer, but that’s what I do. Then what’s the next thing? And I’d say, well, loving people. And then the next.
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Next to grace, I bet God thinks making us need each other was one of His best ideas.
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One thing I do is (and I realize this might sound nuts), every month or so, I try to take like an Etch-a-sketch [so to speak], and I clear my faith. I go to zero, clear the deck. And I start adding things back to my faith, one at a time.
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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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We keep asking for answers; God keeps sending us people.
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