When you trust someone, you don’t need to know everything.
BOB GOFFFix your eyes on Jesus; it’s ok to stare.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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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.
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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.
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But instead of spending all of our time having Bible studies about what we were made to do, go do stuff and you’ll figure out what you were made to do, because you’ll be great at some things and you’ll be terrible at others.
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Sometimes we ask God for help and God gives us hope, not because it’s different, but because it’s the same.
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Do less of what you’re terrible at and more of what you’re good at. I don’t know if that sounds too simple, but it’s been working for me.
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See people for who they’re becoming. Not who they were.
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God makes confetti out of our titles and accomplishments to celebrate the poor and the humble.
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I never know what all of the steps are but I do know the next step.
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I know that sounds so circular, but for you, what you were made to do, is different than what I was made to do.
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Stop telling people how far they have left to go. Instead tell them how far they’ve come.
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Courage isn’t the absence of fear, it’s just deciding that fear isn’t calling the shots anymore
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I think of the church as this bride of Christ, who is incredibly capable of doing amazing things. And so where we see injustice, we come, not with fists clenched but with palms up.
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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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Grace draws a circle around everyone and says they’re in.
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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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