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.
BOB GOFFGod’s never as nervous about our future, or as concerned about our past, as we are.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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I know that sounds so circular, but for you, what you were made to do, is different than what I was made to do.
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Day turned to night, His friends scattered and death thought it had won. But heaven just started counting to three
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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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Here’s our job as believers, love everybody ALWAYS!
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Do one thing that’s heroic for you today – big or small – and fear won’t define you anymore.
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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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Grace means we don’t need to airbrush our lives to make them look like they’re working.
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Love finds us where we are, not where we were.
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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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Stop doing what you’re able to do and figure out what you were made to do – then do lots of that.
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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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We determine how much influence we’ll have, when we decide how available we’ll be.
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Fix your eyes on Jesus; it’s ok to stare.
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Loving people the way Jesus did, means living a life of constant interruptions. Bring it.
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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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