God wants us to kick it down. Or perhaps just sit outside of it long enough until somebody tells us we can come in.
BOB GOFFIt will be more love, not more information, that will change our hearts.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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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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When love is a theory, it’s safe, it’s free of risk. But love in the brain changes nothing.
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What Jesus said we could do is leave typical behind.
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I don’t think anyone aims to be typical, really. Most people even vow to themselves some time in high school or college not to be typical. But still, they just kind of loop back to it somehow.
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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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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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We can’t always see people’s pain; they can always feel our love.
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If you get a no from somebody, don’t say, ‘I’m going to take this as some big cosmic signal.’ No, you just got a no, deal with it. Just go to the next step.
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I learned that fully loving and fully living are not only synonymous but the kind of life that Jesus invited us to be part of.
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We need to wash the feet of our enemies.
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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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God makes confetti out of our titles and accomplishments to celebrate the poor and the humble.
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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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Cynicism is fear posing as confidence; joy is hope let off the leash.
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The world will figure out what we really believe, by watching what we actually do.
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