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.
BOB GOFFIt will be more love, not more information, that will change our hearts.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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Do what lasts, get around to everything else.
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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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I don’t think success is what we’ve made of ourselves; I think it’s what we’ve made of others.
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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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See people for who they’re becoming. Not who they were.
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When you trust someone, you don’t need to know everything.
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He asks if we’ll give up that thing we’re so proud of, that thing we believe causes us to matter in the eyes of the world, and give it up to follow Him. He’s asking us, ‘Will you take what you think defines you, leave it behind, and let Me define who you are instead?’
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I used to hope the things I did would work; now I hope they last.
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We spend a lot of energy remembering failures God spent a lot of love saying we could forget.
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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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We get to be God’s plan for the whole world by pointing people toward Him.
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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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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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We won’t figure out what’s sacred in life if we settle for what’s safe.
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Grace draws a circle around everyone and says they’re in.
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