I know that sounds so circular, but for you, what you were made to do, is different than what I was made to do.
BOB GOFFLove God. Love people. And do stuff. That’s my punch list everyday.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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Grace means we don’t need to airbrush our lives to make them look like they’re working.
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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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Not surprisingly, we’d get a lot more done too, because we wouldn’t care who’s looking or taking credit. All that energy would be funnelled into awesomeness.
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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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If we only do what we’re familiar with, we might miss what we’ve been made for.
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I think of the church as this bride of Christ, who is incredibly capable of doing amazing things. And so where we see injustice, we come, not with fists clenched but with palms up.
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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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God’s never as nervous about our future, or as concerned about our past, as we are.
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We determine how much influence we’ll have, when we decide how available we’ll be.
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It has always seemed to me that broken things, just like broken people, get used more; it’s probably because God has more pieces to work with.
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What Jesus said we could do is leave typical behind.
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We get to be God’s plan for the whole world by pointing people toward Him.
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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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Love doesn’t just keep thinking about it or keep planning for it… Simply put: Love does!
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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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