People who want to manipulate you will fear your joy, because it’s not easily controlled.
BOB GOFFMost people need love and acceptance a lot more than they need advice.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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Grace means we can put the chalk away and stop keeping score!
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Love is never stationary.
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God isn’t afraid of our doubts; He’s way more concerned when we fake it.
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God keeps telling us to be not afraid, to go big
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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 once heard somebody say that God had closed a door on an opportunity they had hoped for. But I’ve always wondered if when we want to do something that we know is right and good,
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We can’t always see people’s pain; they can always feel our love.
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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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When love is a theory, it’s safe, it’s free of risk. But love in the brain changes nothing.
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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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…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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God finds us in the holes we dig for ourselves. We see failures; He sees foundations.
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We keep telling God our opinions; He keeps asking us about our hearts. We’ll grow the most when we have the right conversations.
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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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No book is a chapter, no chapter tells the whole story, no mistake defines who we are. Hope makes our lives page turners.
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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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We can be the light of the world without leaving our high beams on and annoying everybody.
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I used to hope the things I did would work; now I hope they last.
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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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Living a life of following Christ means constant interruptions.
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Do what lasts, get around to everything else.
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Most people need love and acceptance a lot more than they need advice.
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I don’t think success is what we’ve made of ourselves; I think it’s what we’ve made of others.
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Small streams don’t plan to be mighty rivers. We just move in a direction; God decides what He’ll have us become.
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Don’t let other people decide who you are.
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God’s grace comes in all shapes, sizes, and circumstances as God continues to unfold something magnificent in me.
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