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.
BOB GOFFJesus never told His friends to play it safe.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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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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We can be the light of the world without leaving our high beams on and annoying everybody.
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Love finds us where we are, not where we were.
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Figure out what fuels your joy, then do lots of that
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Jesus won’t try to speak over the noise in our lives; love whispers so we won’t be confused about who’s doing the talking.
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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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The most beautiful scenery in the world is when our friends come into view.
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…we need to stop plotting the course and instead just land the plane on our plans to make a difference by getting to the “do” part of faith.
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Loving people the way Jesus did, means living a life of constant interruptions. Bring it.
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You can quit anything on a Thursday.
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God makes confetti out of our titles and accomplishments to celebrate the poor and the humble.
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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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Every time we see people as ordinary, we turn the wine back into water.
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Whimsy doesn’t care if you are the driver or the passenger; all that matters is that you are on your way.
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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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