I used to be afraid of failing at something that really mattered to me, but now I’m more afraid of succeeding at things that don’t matter.
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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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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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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I don’t think anyone aims to be typical, really. Most people even vow to themselves some time in high school or college not to be typical. But still, they just kind of loop back to it somehow.
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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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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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The way we treat people we disagree with most is a report card on what we’ve learned about love.
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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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…we need to stop plotting the course and instead just land the plane on our plans to make a difference by getting to the “do” part of faith.
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Stand up like a mountain; have faith like a rock; love like an avalanche
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Like the circular rails of a train at an amusement park, the scripts we know offer a brand of security, of predictability, of safety for us. But the problem is, they only take us where we’ve already been.
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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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That’s one of those things about love. It always assumes it can find a way to express itself.
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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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Figure out what fuels your joy, then do lots of that
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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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