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We might be known for what we believed, but we’re certain to be remembered for what we did about it.

Bob Goff

The battle for our hearts is fought on the pages of our calendar.
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Battle Calendars Heart
If we only do what we’re familiar with, we might miss what we’ve been made for.
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Might Made Missing
Live your life like you’re exactly who Jesus thinks you are.
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Jesus Life Live Thinking
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
We’re all amateurs when it comes to love. Don’t be too hard on each other.
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Amateurs Hard Other
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
The shallow end of hope is usually the deep end of grace.
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Ends Grace Shallow
For those who resonate with formulas, here it is: add your whole life, your loves, your passions, and your interests together with what God said He wants us to be about, and that’s your answer.
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Abut Answer Formulas Passion
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
Insecurity wants us to keep track of our failures; grace doesn’t even write them down.
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Grace Track Writing
Love like there’s no tomorrow; live like there’s no yesterday. We’re forgiven; now go love people like we believe it
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Believe People Yesterday
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
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
What Jesus said we could do is leave typical behind.
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Jesus Said Typical
Jesus lets us be real with our life and our faith.
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Being Faith Jesus Real
Love doesn’t try to be efficient; when it is most extravagant, it is least wasted.
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Efficient Extravagant Trying
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
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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God Religious Thinking
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
We spend a lot of energy remembering failures God spent a lot of love saying we could forget.
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Energy Forget Remember
God finds us in the holes we dig for ourselves. We see failures; He sees foundations.
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Foundation God Holes Search
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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Compare Important Jesus
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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Broken God Religious Work
That’s one of the things about love. It doesn’t recognize boundaries and never obeys the rules we try to give it.
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Boundaries Giving Trying
One thing I do is (and I realize this might sound nuts), every month or so, I try to take like an Etch-a-sketch [so to speak], and I clear my faith. I go to zero, clear the deck. And I start adding things back to my faith, one at a time.
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Jesus Month Realize School Zero
He asks if we’ll give up that thing we’re so proud of, that thing we believe causes us to matter in the eyes of the world, and give it up to follow Him. He’s asking us, ‘Will you take what you think defines you, leave it behind, and let Me define who you are instead?’
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Ask Cause Define Eyes Proud Thing
God delights in answering our impossible prayers.
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Delight Impossible Prayer

We might be known for what we believed, but we’re certain to be remembered for what we did about it.

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