The teachers I’ve learned the most from, didn’t think they were teaching me; they just thought we were friends.
BOB GOFFI used to think life could be shared with anyone, but now I know choosing the right people is pretty important.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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Small streams don’t plan to be mighty rivers. We just move in a direction; God decides what He’ll have us become.
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Most people need love and acceptance a lot more than they need advice.
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Stand up like a mountain; have faith like a rock; love like an avalanche
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Surround yourself with prompts that remind you who Jesus is.
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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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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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God finds us in the holes we dig for ourselves. We see failures; He sees foundations.
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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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What I noticed, though, is almost every time I type the word love, it gets changed to the word live…
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The world will figure out what we really believe, by watching what we actually do.
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We can’t always see people’s pain; they can always feel our love.
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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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Something happens when you feel ownership. You no longer act like a spectator or consumer, because you’re an owner. Faith is at its best when it’s that way too. It’s best lived when it’s owned.
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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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Do less of what you’re terrible at and more of what you’re good at. I don’t know if that sounds too simple, but it’s been working for me.
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