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I used to think I could learn about Jesus by studying Him, but now I know Jesus doesn’t want stalkers.

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.
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Already Amusement Circular Park Predictability Train
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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Failing Matter Succeed
When love is a theory, it’s safe, it’s free of risk. But love in the brain changes nothing.
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Brain Love Risk
Here’s our job as believers, love everybody ALWAYS!
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Believer Everybody Jobs
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
Do one thing that’s heroic for you today – big or small – and fear won’t define you anymore.
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Bigs Heroic Today
I used to think I could learn about Jesus by studying Him, but now I know Jesus doesn’t want stalkers.
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Jesus Thinking Want
Fix your eyes on Jesus; it’s ok to stare.
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Eye Jesus Staring
Live your life like you’re exactly who Jesus thinks you are.
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Jesus Life Live Thinking
Living a life fully engaged and 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. Their dreams become one of those “we’ll go there next time” deferrals.
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Attitude Dream Love Something
We determine how much influence we’ll have, when we decide how available we’ll be.
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Available Determine Influence
Grace works that way. It’s a kind word from a gentle person with an impossible prayer. It’s a force sometimes transmitted best hand to hand in a dark place.
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Dark Hands Prayer
Whimsy doesn’t care if you are the driver or the passenger; all that matters is that you are on your way.
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Matter Way Whimsy
Words people say not only have a shelf life but have the ability to shape life.
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People Shapes Shelves
We can be the light of the world without leaving our high beams on and annoying everybody.
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Annoy Everybody Leaving Light World
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
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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Actual Cute Destructive Everything Prank Principle
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
Jesus never told His friends to play it safe.
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Friends Jesus Play Safe
See people for who they’re becoming. Not who they were.
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Becoming Life People See
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
We’ll fill our lives with what we cultivate the most. Plant grace by the acre.
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Acres Grace Plant
I used to think God wouldn’t talk to me, but now I know I’m just selective with what I choose to hear.
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Choose Talk Thinking Used
That’s what love does – it pursues blindly, unflinchingly, and without end. When you go after something you love, you’ll do anything it takes to get it, even if it costs everything.
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Anything Cost Love You Pursue
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.
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Confused Jesus Life Love
There’s a lot to be concerned about; there’s more to be hopeful for.
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Concerned Hopeful Lot More
Grace means we don’t need to airbrush our lives to make them look like they’re working.
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Grace Mean Needs

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