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God asks what it is He’s made us to love, what it is that captures our attention, what feeds that deep indescribable need of our souls to experience the richness of the world He made. And then, leaning over us, He whispers, “Let’s go do that together.

Bob Goff

I know that sounds so circular, but for you, what you were made to do, is different than what I was made to do.
BOB GOFF

Different Sound Stuff
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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Asking Heart Opinion
Stand up like a mountain; have faith like a rock; love like an avalanche
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Faith Mountain Rocks Stand
If we only do what we’re familiar with, we might miss what we’ve been made for.
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Might Made Missing
…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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Differences Land Making Remember
But the kind of love that God created and demonstrated is a costly one because it involves sacrifice and presence. It’s a love that operates more like a sign language than being spoken outright.
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Kind Language Sacrifice Sign
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.
BOB GOFF

Bigs Next Signals Steps
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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Answer Loving People School Sunday
We keep asking for answers; God keeps sending us people.
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Answers Asking People
Grace means we don’t need to airbrush our lives to make them look like they’re working.
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Grace Mean Needs
Surround yourself with prompts that remind you who Jesus is.
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Jesus Prompt Surround Yourself
The way we love people we disagree with is the best evidence of what we really believe.
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Believe People Way
We spend a lot of energy remembering failures God spent a lot of love saying we could forget.
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Energy Forget Remember
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
No book is a chapter, no chapter tells the whole story, no mistake defines who we are. Hope makes our lives page turners.
BOB GOFF

Books Mistakes Stories
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.
BOB GOFF

Already Amusement Circular Park Predictability Train

God asks what it is He’s made us to love, what it is that captures our attention, what feeds that deep indescribable need of our souls to experience the richness of the world He made. And then, leaning over us, He whispers, “Let’s go do that together.

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God asks what it is He’s made us to love, what it is that captures our attention, what feeds that deep indescribable need of our souls to experience the richness of the world He made. And then, leaning over us, He whispers, “Let’s go do that together.

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