The real game of Bigger and Better that Jesus is playing with us usually isn’t about money or possessions or even our hopes. It’s about our pride.
BOB GOFFMost people need love and acceptance a lot more than they need advice.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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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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Next to grace, I bet God thinks making us need each other was one of His best ideas.
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If you get a no from somebody, don’t say, ‘I’m going to take this as some big cosmic signal.’ No, you just got a no, deal with it. Just go to the next step.
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I used to be afraid of failing at something that really mattered to me, but now I’m more afraid of succeeding at things that don’t matter.
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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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Stand up like a mountain; have faith like a rock; love like an avalanche
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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 organization just said no to you. Find what it is that you were made to do and get on it! Go do what you were made to do.
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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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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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Insecurity wants us to keep track of our failures; grace doesn’t even write them down.
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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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Love has the kind of power criticism only wishes it had.
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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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