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God’s never as nervous about our future, or as concerned about our past, as we are.

Bob Goff

God delights in answering our impossible prayers.
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Delight Impossible Prayer
Whatever you’re aiming for, God’s better.
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Animal Better God
I never know what all of the steps are but I do know the next step.
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Know never Next Steps
We can be the light of the world without leaving our high beams on and annoying everybody.
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Annoy Everybody Leaving Light World
Fear will give us a reason not to try; hope will give us a reason not to listen.
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Giving Reason Trying
The way we treat people we disagree with most is a report card on what we’ve learned about love.
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Cards People Way
God wants us to kick it down. Or perhaps just sit outside of it long enough until somebody tells us we can come in.
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Enough God Perhaps Somebody Tells Wants
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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Find Made Organisation Say
The way we love people we disagree with is the best evidence of what we really believe.
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Believe People Way
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
We can’t always see people’s pain; they can always feel our love.
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Love Our Pain People
Most people need love and acceptance a lot more than they need advice.
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Acceptance Healing Motivational
What Jesus said we could do is leave typical behind.
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Jesus Said Typical
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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Church Fists Thinking
Nobody turns down an invitation to the White House, but I’ve seen plenty of people turn down an invitation to fully live.
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House People White
Next to grace, I bet God thinks making us need each other was one of His best ideas.
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Grace Ideas Thinking
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.
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Bigs Next Signals Steps
Don’t let not knowing how it’ll end keep you from beginning. Uncertainty chases us out into the open where God is waiting.
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Ends Knowing Waiting
I used to hope the things I did would work; now I hope they last.
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Hope Lasts Used Work
There’s a lot to be concerned about; there’s more to be hopeful for.
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Concerned Hopeful Lot More
Living a life of following Christ means constant interruptions.
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Christ Constant Following Mean
You don’t want to pick a fight with just the guy at the deli, [you want to] pick a fight somewhere in the world and just run towards it. Run because the fight is going to go on without you if you miss it.
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Fighting Guy Running Somewhere
We determine how much influence we’ll have, when we decide how available we’ll be.
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Available Determine Influence
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
Do what lasts, get around to everything else.
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Around Everything Lasts
You can quit anything on a Thursday.
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Quit Quitting Thursday
We won’t figure out what’s sacred in life if we settle for what’s safe.
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Sacred Safe Settling

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