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They loop us back to places where everyone can easily go, not necessarily where we were made to go. Living a different kind of life takes some guts and grit and a new way of seeing things.

Bob Goff

We plant sod where God wants 2 plant seed. He’s more interested in growing our character than having us look finished.
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Character Growing Looks
But the kind of love that God created and demonstrated is a costly one because it involves sacrifice and presence. It’s a love that operates more like a sign language than being spoken outright.
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Kind Language Sacrifice Sign
You can quit anything on a Thursday.
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Quit Quitting Thursday
I used to think JESUS motivated us with ultimatums, but now I know He pursues us in LOVE.
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Jesus Motivate Thinking
It will be more love, not more information, that will change our hearts.
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Heart Hearts Information Our
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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Easy Fall Lasts
Fear will give us a reason not to try; hope will give us a reason not to listen.
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Giving Reason Trying
Love is never stationary.
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Find Love Stationary
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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Awesomeness Everyone Somehow Surprise
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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Doors Thinking Want
What Jesus said we could do is leave typical behind.
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Jesus Said Typical
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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Adventure Soul Together
See people for who they’re becoming. Not who they were.
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Becoming Life People See
Figure out what fuels your joy, then do lots of that
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Figures Fuel Joy
That’s one of those things about love. It always assumes it can find a way to express itself.
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Assuming Express Way
Something happens when you feel ownership. You no longer act like a spectator or consumer, because you’re an owner. Faith is at its best when it’s that way too. It’s best lived when it’s owned.
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Faith Feels Ownership Way
I learned that fully loving and fully living are not only synonymous but the kind of life that Jesus invited us to be part of.
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Fully Invited Learn Living Part
We’re all amateurs when it comes to love. Don’t be too hard on each other.
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Amateurs Hard Other
Do what lasts, get around to everything else.
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Around Everything Lasts
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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Heart Opportunity Thinking
Nobody turns down an invitation to the White House, but I’ve seen plenty of people turn down an invitation to fully live.
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House People White
What would be the first thing I’d add back? Jesus. It sounds a little bit like a Sunday school answer, but that’s what I do. Then what’s the next thing? And I’d say, well, loving people. And then the next.
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Answer Loving People School Sunday
Jesus never told His friends to play it safe.
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Friends Jesus Play Safe
Jesus lets us be real with our life and our faith.
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Being Faith Jesus Real
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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Giving Life Rest School
They loop us back to places where everyone can easily go, not necessarily where we were made to go. Living a different kind of life takes some guts and grit and a new way of seeing things.
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Everyone Girl Living Necessarily Seeing Things
When you trust someone, you don’t need to know everything.
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Knows Needs Something Trust

They loop us back to places where everyone can easily go, not necessarily where we were made to go. Living a different kind of life takes some guts and grit and a new way of seeing things.

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They loop us back to places where everyone can easily go, not necessarily where we were made to go. Living a different kind of life takes some guts and grit and a new way of seeing things.

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