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It’s easy to confuse a lot of activity with a purposeful life. Do what lasts; let the rest fall away.

Bob Goff

I used to think JESUS motivated us with ultimatums, but now I know He pursues us in LOVE.
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Jesus Motivate Thinking
See people for who they’re becoming. Not who they were.
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Becoming Life People See
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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Carrying Jesus Stuff Way
Most of us have all the information we need. What we need is more passion.
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Information Needs Passion
Love doesn’t try to be efficient; when it is most extravagant, it is least wasted.
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Efficient Extravagant Trying
What I’ve learned the more time I’ve spent following Jesus is that God delights in answering our impossible prayers.
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Delight Jesus Prayer
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
I don’t know every step I’m supposed to take. I think Jesus just wants me to take the next step.
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Jesus Next Step Thinking
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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Certain might Remembered
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 Pride Selfless
God’s grace comes in all shapes, sizes, and circumstances as God continues to unfold something magnificent in me.
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Grace Shapes Size
God makes confetti out of our titles and accomplishments to celebrate the poor and the humble.
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Accomplishment Humble Titles
We keep telling God our opinions; He keeps asking us about our hearts. We’ll grow the most when we have the right conversations.
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Asking Heart Opinion
Stand up like a mountain; have faith like a rock; love like an avalanche
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Faith Mountain Rocks Stand
Love doesn’t just keep thinking about it or keep planning for it… Simply put: Love does!
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Planning Simple Thinking
What would be the first thing I’d add back? Jesus. It sounds a little bit like a Sunday school answer, but that’s what I do. Then what’s the next thing? And I’d say, well, loving people. And then the next.
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Answer Loving People School Sunday
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’re all amateurs when it comes to love. Don’t be too hard on each other.
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Amateurs Hard Other
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
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
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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Moving Rivers Streams
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
Jesus lets us be real with our life and our faith.
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Being Faith Jesus Real
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
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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Different Giving Helping
Insecurity wants us to keep track of our failures; grace doesn’t even write them down.
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Grace Track Writing
Surround yourself with prompts that remind you who Jesus is.
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Jesus Prompt Surround Yourself

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