Courage isn’t the absence of fear, it’s just deciding that fear isn’t calling the shots anymore
BOB GOFFJesus is nuts about kids. He doesn’t seem to think much of lawyers which really lands close to home, but He’s nuts about kids and loves justice.
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I used to want to fix people, but now I just want to be with them.
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Cynicism is fear posing as confidence; joy is hope let off the leash.
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That’s a prank. It has no shelf life, like reassembling the principal’s car up on the roof of the gym. It’s cute and everything but there’s no shelf-life, and it can actually be kind of destructive. But a caper is different. It’s something where everybody has made it in.
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Words people say not only have a shelf life but have the ability to shape life.
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The organization just said no to you. Find what it is that you were made to do and get on it! Go do what you were made to do.
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We can’t always see people’s pain; they can always feel our love.
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The world will figure out what we really believe, by watching what we actually do.
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There’s a lot to be concerned about; there’s more to be hopeful for.
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Every time we see people as ordinary, we turn the wine back into water.
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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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Love doesn’t try to be efficient; when it is most extravagant, it is least wasted.
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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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Love finds us where we are, not where we were.
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We might be known for what we believed, but we’re certain to be remembered for what we did about it.
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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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We won’t be like Jesus if it’s more important to us to be like each other. God doesn’t compare what he creates.
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God isn’t afraid of our doubts; He’s way more concerned when we fake it.
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Live your life like you’re exactly who Jesus thinks you are.
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We’ll never honor Christ if we forget how to honor each other.
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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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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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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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That’s one of those things about love. It always assumes it can find a way to express itself.
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The shallow end of hope is usually the deep end of grace.
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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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What I’ve learned the more time I’ve spent following Jesus is that God delights in answering our impossible prayers.
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