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…we need to stop plotting the course and instead just land the plane on our plans to make a difference by getting to the “do” part of faith.

Bob Goff

Like the circular rails of a train at an amusement park, the scripts we know offer a brand of security, of predictability, of safety for us. But the problem is, they only take us where we’ve already been.
BOB GOFF

Already Amusement Circular Park Predictability Train
You don’t want to pick a fight with just the guy at the deli, [you want to] pick a fight somewhere in the world and just run towards it. Run because the fight is going to go on without you if you miss it.
BOB GOFF

Fighting Guy Running Somewhere
That’s one of the things about love. It doesn’t recognize boundaries and never obeys the rules we try to give it.
BOB GOFF

Boundaries Giving Trying
Stand up like a mountain; have faith like a rock; love like an avalanche
BOB GOFF

Faith Mountain Rocks Stand
Love finds us where we are, not where we were.
BOB GOFF

Emotion Find Love Trust
God asks what it is He’s made us to love, what it is that captures our attention, what feeds that deep indescribable need of our souls to experience the richness of the world He made. And then, leaning over us, He whispers, “Let’s go do that together.
BOB GOFF

Ask Attention Captures God Layering Made Richness
Whimsy doesn’t care if you are the driver or the passenger; all that matters is that you are on your way.
BOB GOFF

Matter Way Whimsy
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

Everyone Girl Living Necessarily Seeing Things
If we only do what we’re familiar with, we might miss what we’ve been made for.
BOB GOFF

Might Made Missing
We’ll fill our lives with what we cultivate the most. Plant grace by the acre.
BOB GOFF

Acres Grace Plant
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.
BOB GOFF

Broken God Religious Work
There’s a lot to be concerned about; there’s more to be hopeful for.
BOB GOFF

Concerned Hopeful Lot More
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.
BOB GOFF

Answer Loving People School Sunday
The real game of Bigger and Better that Jesus is playing with us usually isn’t about money or possessions or even our hopes. It’s about our pride.
BOB GOFF

Give Up Jesus Pride Real
We won’t figure out what’s sacred in life if we settle for what’s safe.
BOB GOFF

Sacred Safe Settling
Stop telling people how far they have left to go. Instead tell them how far they’ve come.
BOB GOFF

Come Left People

…we need to stop plotting the course and instead just land the plane on our plans to make a difference by getting to the “do” part of faith.

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…we need to stop plotting the course and instead just land the plane on our plans to make a difference by getting to the “do” part of faith.

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