A hope that makes us brave and expels darkness with light. That’s what I want my life to be all about – full of abandon, whimsy, and in love.
BOB GOFFGreat love leaves little doubt.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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We get to be God’s plan for the whole world by pointing people toward Him.
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We’ll become whoever we trust the most says we are.
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Love has the kind of power criticism only wishes it had.
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One thing I do is (and I realize this might sound nuts), every month or so, I try to take like an Etch-a-sketch [so to speak], and I clear my faith. I go to zero, clear the deck. And I start adding things back to my faith, one at a time.
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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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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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I used to think God guided us by opening and closing doors, but now I know sometimes God wants us to kick some doors down.
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See people for who they’re becoming. Not who they were.
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Jesus never told His friends to play it safe.
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We’ll never honor Christ if we forget how to honor each other.
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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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We determine how much influence we’ll have, when we decide how available we’ll be.
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We can’t always see people’s pain; they can always feel our love.
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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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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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