Jesus won’t try to speak over the noise in our lives; love whispers so we won’t be confused about who’s doing the talking.
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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That’s a prank. It has no shelf life, like reassembling the principal’s car up on the roof of the gym. It’s cute and everything but there’s no shelf-life, and it can actually be kind of destructive. But a caper is different. It’s something where everybody has made it in.
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When it feels like we need to choose between being right and being humble- pick both
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We might be known for what we believed, but we’re certain to be remembered for what we did about it.
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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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Day turned to night, His friends scattered and death thought it had won. But heaven just started counting to three
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God wants us to kick it down. Or perhaps just sit outside of it long enough until somebody tells us we can come in.
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If you’re following God and haven’t lost much of what you’ve been holding on to – follow a little closer.
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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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Stop doing what you’re able to do and figure out what you were made to do – then do lots of that.
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That’s one of those things about love. It always assumes it can find a way to express itself.
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We all want to have a place where we can dream and escape anything that wraps steel bands around our imagination and creativity.
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Don’t let other people decide who you are.
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We’re part of God’s much bigger plan for the whole world. Just like God’s Son arrived here, so did you. And after Jesus arrived, God whispered to all of humanity “It’s your move.
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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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A hope that makes us brave and expels darkness with light. That’s what I want my life to be all about – full of abandon, whimsy, and in love.
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Grace means we can put the chalk away and stop keeping score!
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I don’t know every step I’m supposed to take. I think Jesus just wants me to take the next step.
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You can quit anything on a Thursday.
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Words people say not only have a shelf life but have the ability to shape life.
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Love like there’s no tomorrow; live like there’s no yesterday. We’re forgiven; now go love people like we believe it
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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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Love doesn’t try to be efficient; when it is most extravagant, it is least wasted.
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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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Whatever you’re aiming for, God’s better.
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When you trust someone, you don’t need to know everything.
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You don’t need a plan; you just need to be present.
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