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We won’t be distracted by comparison if we’re captivated with purpose.

Bob Goff

Love doesn’t try to be efficient; when it is most extravagant, it is least wasted.
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Efficient Extravagant Trying
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 Religious Thinking
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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Everyone Girl Living Necessarily Seeing Things
We’re all amateurs when it comes to love. Don’t be too hard on each other.
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Amateurs Hard Other
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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Carrying Jesus Stuff Way
I used to want to fix people, but now I just want to be with them.
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People Used Want
Love has the kind of power criticism only wishes it had.
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Criticism Kind Wish
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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Enough God Perhaps Somebody Tells Wants
We need to make our faith our very own love story.
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Love Needs Stories Story
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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Engaged Most People Things
Like the circular rails of a train at an amusement park, the scripts we know offer a brand of security, of predictability, of safety for us. But the problem is, they only take us where we’ve already been.
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Already Amusement Circular Park Predictability Train
God doesn’t break things so He can fix them; He fixes broken things so He can use them.
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Christian Faith God
Sometimes we ask God for help and God gives us hope, not because it’s different, but because it’s the same.
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Different Giving Helping
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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Character Growing Looks
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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Church Fists Thinking
We can’t always see people’s pain; they can always feel our love.
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Love Our Pain People

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