We can be the light of the world without leaving our high beams on and annoying everybody.
BOB GOFFLove God. Love people. And do stuff. That’s my punch list everyday.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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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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We won’t figure out what’s sacred in life if we settle for what’s safe.
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God keeps telling us to be not afraid, to go big
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We determine how much influence we’ll have, when we decide how available we’ll be.
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God finds us in the holes we dig for ourselves. We see failures; He sees foundations.
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Love doesn’t try to be efficient; when it is most extravagant, it is least wasted.
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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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It’s easy to confuse a lot of activity with a purposeful life. Do what lasts; let the rest fall away.
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I used to think God guided us by opening and closing doors, but now I know sometimes God wants us to kick some doors down.
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The way we treat people we disagree with most is a report card on what we’ve learned about love.
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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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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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Simply put: love does.
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We get to be God’s plan for the whole world by pointing people toward Him.
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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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We spend a lot of energy remembering failures God spent a lot of love saying we could forget.
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We won’t be like Jesus if it’s more important to us to be like each other. God doesn’t compare what he creates.
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God made beauty so we’d know how He felt about us.
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When you love people like Jesus, you get messy. But messy looks good on you!
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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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Love is never stationary.
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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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The world will figure out what we really believe, by watching what we actually do.
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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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Love finds us where we are, not where we were.
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Grace means we can put the chalk away and stop keeping score!
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