Here’s our job as believers, love everybody ALWAYS!
BOB GOFFLove doesn’t just keep thinking about it or keep planning for it… Simply put: Love does!
More Bob Goff Quotes
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Whatever you’re aiming for, God’s better.
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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.
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I don’t think success is what we’ve made of ourselves; I think it’s what we’ve made of others.
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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 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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Fix your eyes on Jesus; it’s ok to stare.
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Insecurity wants us to keep track of our failures; grace doesn’t even write them down.
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When it feels like we need to choose between being right and being humble- pick both
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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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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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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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We’re all amateurs when it comes to love. Don’t be too hard on each other.
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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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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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What I noticed, though, is almost every time I type the word love, it gets changed to the word live…
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