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.
BOB GOFFThe 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.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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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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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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Live your life like you’re exactly who Jesus thinks you are.
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Living a life of following Christ means constant interruptions.
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I never know what all of the steps are but I do know the next step.
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You don’t need a plan; you just need to be present.
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I think of the church as this bride of Christ, who is incredibly capable of doing amazing things. And so where we see injustice, we come, not with fists clenched but with palms up.
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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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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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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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Selfless love is always costly; fear can’t afford it, pride doesn’t understand it and friends never forget it.
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Being engaged is a way of doing life, a way of living and loving. It’s about going to extremes and expressing the bright hope that life offers us.
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Something happens when you feel ownership. You no longer act like a spectator or consumer, because you’re an owner. Faith is at its best when it’s that way too. It’s best lived when it’s owned.
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What Jesus said we could do is leave typical behind.
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Love doesn’t try to be efficient; when it is most extravagant, it is least wasted.
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