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If we only do what we’re familiar with, we might miss what we’ve been made for.

Bob Goff

God makes confetti out of our titles and accomplishments to celebrate the poor and the humble.
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Accomplishment Humble Titles
God’s never as nervous about our future, or as concerned about our past, as we are.
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Future Nervous Our Past
Cynicism is fear posing as confidence; joy is hope let off the leash.
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Cynicism Joy Posing
When love is a theory, it’s safe, it’s free of risk. But love in the brain changes nothing.
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Brain Love Risk
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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College School Thinking
Love has the kind of power criticism only wishes it had.
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Criticism Kind Wish
You can quit anything on a Thursday.
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Quit Quitting Thursday
It’s easy to confuse a lot of activity with a purposeful life. Do what lasts; let the rest fall away.
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Easy Fall Lasts
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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Jesus Month Realize School Zero
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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Giving Life Rest School
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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Dark Hands Prayer
Next to grace, I bet God thinks making us need each other was one of His best ideas.
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Grace Ideas Thinking
Courage isn’t the absence of fear, it’s just deciding that fear isn’t calling the shots anymore
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Absence Calling Shots
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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Teacher Teaching Thinking
Living a life of following Christ means constant interruptions.
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Christ Constant Following Mean
Grace means we don’t need to airbrush our lives to make them look like they’re working.
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Grace Mean Needs

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