We need to wash the feet of our enemies.
BOB GOFFIf we only do what we’re familiar with, we might miss what we’ve been made for.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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I’m all for getting together with men and women in small groups around Scripture and letting it just wash over us, but for me, I’ve been meeting with the same ten guys for like 15 years now, but we don’t have a Bible study every Friday, we have a Bible doing.
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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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It will be the people with the greatest love, not the most information, who will influence us to change.
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The way we love people we disagree with is the best evidence of what we really believe.
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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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The shallow end of hope is usually the deep end of grace.
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We won’t figure out what’s sacred in life if we settle for what’s safe.
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God’s never as nervous about our future, or as concerned about our past, as we are.
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God keeps telling us to be not afraid, to go big
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Do less of what you’re terrible at and more of what you’re good at. I don’t know if that sounds too simple, but it’s been working for me.
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God wants us to kick it down. Or perhaps just sit outside of it long enough until somebody tells us we can come in.
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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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That’s one of the things about love. It doesn’t recognize boundaries and never obeys the rules we try to give it.
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It has always seemed to me that broken things, just like broken people, get used more; it’s probably because God has more pieces to work with.
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