I used to be afraid of failing at something that really mattered to me, but now I’m more afraid of succeeding at things that don’t matter.
BOB GOFFWe keep telling God our opinions; He keeps asking us about our hearts. We’ll grow the most when we have the right conversations.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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God isn’t afraid of our doubts; He’s way more concerned when we fake it.
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God made beauty so we’d know how He felt about us.
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The world will figure out what we really believe, by watching what we actually do.
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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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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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Every time we see people as ordinary, we turn the wine back into water.
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We need to make our faith our very own love story.
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Living a life fully engaged and 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. Their dreams become one of those “we’ll go there next time” deferrals.
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Figure out what fuels your joy, then do lots of that
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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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You can quit anything on a Thursday.
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God wants us to kick it down. Or perhaps just sit outside of it long enough until somebody tells us we can come in.
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We need to wash the feet of our enemies.
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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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It has always seemed to me that broken things, just like broken people, get used more; it’s probably because God has more pieces to work with.
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