Jesus never told His friends to play it safe.
BOB GOFFCourage isn’t the absence of fear, it’s just deciding that fear isn’t calling the shots anymore
More Bob Goff Quotes
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God made beauty so we’d know how He felt about us.
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Fear will give us a reason not to try; hope will give us a reason not to listen.
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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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I’m all for getting together with men and women in small groups around Scripture and letting it just wash over us, but for me, I’ve been meeting with the same ten guys for like 15 years now, but we don’t have a Bible study every Friday, we have a Bible doing.
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We determine how much influence we’ll have, when we decide how available we’ll be.
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Selfless love is always costly; fear can’t afford it, pride doesn’t understand it and friends never forget it.
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Love is never stationary.
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It will be more love, not more information, that will change our hearts.
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God makes confetti out of our titles and accomplishments to celebrate the poor and the humble.
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Love finds us where we are, not where we were.
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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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God wants us to kick it down. Or perhaps just sit outside of it long enough until somebody tells us we can come in.
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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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The most beautiful scenery in the world is when our friends come into view.
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The shallow end of hope is usually the deep end of grace.
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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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Stop doing what you’re able to do and figure out what you were made to do – then do lots of that.
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That’s one of those things about love. It always assumes it can find a way to express itself.
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Next to grace, I bet God thinks making us need each other was one of His best ideas.
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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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The way we deal with uncertainty says a lot about whether Jesus is ahead of us leading, or behind us just carrying our stuff.
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Jesus lets us be real with our life and our faith.
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Small streams don’t plan to be mighty rivers. We just move in a direction; God decides what He’ll have us become.
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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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See people for who they’re becoming. Not who they were.
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Words people say not only have a shelf life but have the ability to shape life.
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