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.
BOB GOFFGod keeps telling us to be not afraid, to go big
More Bob Goff Quotes
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Whatever you’re aiming for, God’s better.
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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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You don’t need a plan; you just need to be present.
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If you’re following God and haven’t lost much of what you’ve been holding on to – follow a little closer.
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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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See people for who they’re becoming. Not who they were.
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For those who resonate with formulas, here it is: add your whole life, your loves, your passions, and your interests together with what God said He wants us to be about, and that’s your answer.
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We determine how much influence we’ll have, when we decide how available we’ll be.
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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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I once heard somebody say that God had closed a door on an opportunity they had hoped for. But I’ve always wondered if when we want to do something that we know is right and good,
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We get to be God’s plan for the whole world by pointing people toward Him.
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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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Grace draws a circle around everyone and says they’re in.
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Next to grace, I bet God thinks making us need each other was one of His best ideas.
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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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Figure out what fuels your joy, then do lots of that
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Jesus 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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That’s what love does – it pursues blindly, unflinchingly, and without end. When you go after something you love, you’ll do anything it takes to get it, even if it costs everything.
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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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Words people say not only have a shelf life but have the ability to shape life.
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When you are in high school, you don’t give much thought to what you can’t do. For most people, that gets learned later, and for still fewer, gets unlearned for the rest of life.
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We won’t figure out what’s sacred in life if we settle for what’s safe.
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Jesus never told His friends to play it safe.
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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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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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We need to make our faith our very own love story.
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