It’s easy to confuse a lot of activity with a purposeful life. Do what lasts; let the rest fall away.
BOB GOFFNext to grace, I bet God thinks making us need each other was one of His best ideas.
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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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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Living a life fully engaged in full of whimsy and the kind of things that love does is something most people plan to do, but along the way they just kind of forget.
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I used to want to fix people, but now I just want to be with them.
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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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See people for who they’re becoming. Not who they were.
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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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What I noticed, though, is almost every time I type the word love, it gets changed to the word live…
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It will be more love, not more information, that will change our hearts.
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Sometimes we ask God for help and God gives us hope, not because it’s different, but because it’s the same.
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God places that desire deep in our hearts because He wants it for us and it honors Him. Maybe there are times when we think a door has been closed and, instead of misinterpreting the circumstances,
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We’ll become whoever we trust the most says we are.
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Selfless love is always costly; fear can’t afford it, pride doesn’t understand it and friends never forget it.
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Stand up like a mountain; have faith like a rock; love like an avalanche
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Don’t let not knowing how it’ll end keep you from beginning. Uncertainty chases us out into the open where God is waiting.
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