I used to want to fix people, but now I just want to be with them.
BOB GOFFIt will be more love, not more information, that will change our hearts.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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A hope that makes us brave and expels darkness with light. That’s what I want my life to be all about – full of abandon, whimsy, and in love.
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That’s what love does – it pursues blindly, unflinchingly, and without end. When you go after something you love, you’ll do anything it takes to get it, even if it costs everything.
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God made beauty so we’d know how He felt about us.
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The way we treat people we disagree with most is a report card on what we’ve learned about love.
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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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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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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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Whatever you’re aiming for, God’s better.
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Love is never stationary.
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We keep asking for answers; God keeps sending us people.
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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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Fix your eyes on Jesus; it’s ok to stare.
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Grace works that way. It’s a kind word from a gentle person with an impossible prayer. It’s a force sometimes transmitted best hand to hand in a dark place.
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It will be more love, not more information, that will change our hearts.
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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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