God’s never as nervous about our future, or as concerned about our past, as we are.
BOB GOFFIt will be more love, not more information, that will change our hearts.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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Stand up like a mountain; have faith like a rock; love like an avalanche
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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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Love has the kind of power criticism only wishes it had.
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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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Most of us have all the information we need. What we need is more passion.
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Living a life fully engaged in full of whimsy and the kind of things that love does is something most people plan to do, but along the way they just kind of forget.
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Being engaged is a way of doing life, a way of living and loving. It’s about going to extremes and expressing the bright hope that life offers us.
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The way we love people we disagree with is the best evidence of what we really believe.
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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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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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We can be the light of the world without leaving our high beams on and annoying everybody.
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Nobody turns down an invitation to the White House, but I’ve seen plenty of people turn down an invitation to fully live.
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We all want to have a place where we can dream and escape anything that wraps steel bands around our imagination and creativity.
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We need to wash the feet of our enemies.
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It will be more love, not more information, that will change our hearts.
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Stop doing what you’re able to do and figure out what you were made to do – then do lots of that.
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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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Words people say not only have a shelf life but have the ability to shape life.
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I used to think you had to be special for God to use you, but now I know you simply need to say yes.
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God makes confetti out of our titles and accomplishments to celebrate the poor and the humble.
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Live your life like you’re exactly who Jesus thinks you are.
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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.
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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 think life could be shared with anyone, but now I know choosing the right people is pretty important.
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Grace means we can put the chalk away and stop keeping score!
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What distracts us will begin to define us. We don’t need to swing at every pitch.
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