Love doesn’t just keep thinking about it or keep planning for it… Simply put: Love does!
BOB GOFFFor 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.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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I never know what all of the steps are but I do know the next step.
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No book is a chapter, no chapter tells the whole story, no mistake defines who we are. Hope makes our lives page turners.
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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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We’ll never honor Christ if we forget how to honor each other.
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We plant sod where God wants 2 plant seed. He’s more interested in growing our character than having us look finished.
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God finds us in the holes we dig for ourselves. We see failures; He sees foundations.
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Jesus lets us be real with our life and our faith.
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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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We won’t be distracted by comparison if we’re captivated with purpose.
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We keep asking for answers; God keeps sending us people.
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Living a life of following Christ means constant interruptions.
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I’m all for getting together with men and women in small groups around Scripture and letting it just wash over us, but for me, I’ve been meeting with the same ten guys for like 15 years now, but we don’t have a Bible study every Friday, we have a Bible doing.
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Cynicism is fear posing as confidence; joy is hope let off the leash.
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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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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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Most of us have all the information we need. What we need is more passion.
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Insecurity wants us to keep track of our failures; grace doesn’t even write them down.
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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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I used to think I could learn about Jesus by studying Him, but now I know Jesus doesn’t want stalkers.
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Courage doesn’t mean we’re not afraid anymore, it just means our actions aren’t controlled by our doubts.
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Grace draws a circle around everyone and says they’re in.
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God made beauty so we’d know how He felt about us.
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The real game of Bigger and Better that Jesus is playing with us usually isn’t about money or possessions or even our hopes. It’s about our pride.
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The teachers I’ve learned the most from, didn’t think they were teaching me; they just thought we were friends.
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But instead of spending all of our time having Bible studies about what we were made to do, go do stuff and you’ll figure out what you were made to do, because you’ll be great at some things and you’ll be terrible at others.
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That’s one of those things about love. It always assumes it can find a way to express itself.
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