Living a life fully engaged in 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.
BOB GOFFOne 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.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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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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I don’t know every step I’m supposed to take. I think Jesus just wants me to take the next step.
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Stand up like a mountain; have faith like a rock; love like an avalanche
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Living a life of following Christ means constant interruptions.
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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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Love like there’s no tomorrow; live like there’s no yesterday. We’re forgiven; now go love people like we believe it
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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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We won’t be like Jesus if it’s more important to us to be like each other. God doesn’t compare what he creates.
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Love finds us where we are, not where we were.
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You can quit anything on a Thursday.
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They loop us back to places where everyone can easily go, not necessarily where we were made to go. Living a different kind of life takes some guts and grit and a new way of seeing things.
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We keep asking for answers; God keeps sending us people.
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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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If we only do what we’re familiar with, we might miss what we’ve been made for.
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I used to think God wouldn’t talk to me, but now I know I’m just selective with what I choose to hear.
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