God’s grace comes in all shapes, sizes, and circumstances as God continues to unfold something magnificent in me.
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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Grace works that way. It’s a kind word from a gentle person with an impossible prayer. It’s a force sometimes transmitted best hand to hand in a dark place.
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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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Whatever you’re aiming for, God’s better.
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Most of us have all the information we need. What we need is more passion.
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What would be the first thing I’d add back? Jesus. It sounds a little bit like a Sunday school answer, but that’s what I do. Then what’s the next thing? And I’d say, well, loving people. And then the next.
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The shallow end of hope is usually the deep end of grace.
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I used to think life could be shared with anyone, but now I know choosing the right people is pretty important.
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Do what lasts, get around to everything else.
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Figure out what fuels your joy, then do lots of that
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God finds us in the holes we dig for ourselves. We see failures; He sees foundations.
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Courage isn’t the absence of fear, it’s just deciding that fear isn’t calling the shots anymore
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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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We spend a lot of energy remembering failures God spent a lot of love saying we could forget.
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We get to be God’s plan for the whole world by pointing people toward Him.
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When love is a theory, it’s safe, it’s free of risk. But love in the brain changes nothing.
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