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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
Stop telling people how far they have left to go. Instead tell them how far they’ve come.
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Come Left People
Here’s our job as believers, love everybody ALWAYS!
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Believer Everybody Jobs
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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Holding Littles Lost
Fear will give us a reason not to try; hope will give us a reason not to listen.
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Giving Reason Trying
What distracts us will begin to define us. We don’t need to swing at every pitch.
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Define Needs Pitch Swings
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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Answer Loving People School Sunday
For those who resonate with formulas, here it is: add your whole life, your loves, your passions, and your interests together with what God said He wants us to be about, and that’s your answer.
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Abut Answer Formulas Passion
I never know what all of the steps are but I do know the next step.
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Know never Next Steps
Love doesn’t just keep thinking about it or keep planning for it… Simply put: Love does!
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Planning Simple Thinking
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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Church Fists Thinking
You don’t need a plan; you just need to be present.
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Needs Plans Present
We need to make our faith our very own love story.
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Love Needs Stories Story
I once heard somebody say that God had closed a door on an opportunity they had hoped for. But I’ve always wondered if when we want to do something that we know is right and good,
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Heart Opportunity Thinking
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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Attitude Dream Love Something
I learned that fully loving and fully living are not only synonymous but the kind of life that Jesus invited us to be part of.
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Fully Invited Learn Living Part
The way we love people we disagree with is the best evidence of what we really believe.
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Believe People Way
The world will figure out what we really believe, by watching what we actually do.
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Believe Figures World
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
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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Already Amusement Circular Park Predictability Train
I don’t think success is what we’ve made of ourselves; I think it’s what we’ve made of others.
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Made Ourselves Success Thinking
Do what lasts, get around to everything else.
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Around Everything Lasts
What I’ve learned the more time I’ve spent following Jesus is that God delights in answering our impossible prayers.
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Delight Jesus Prayer
I used to think God guided us by opening and closing doors, but now I know sometimes God wants us to kick some doors down.
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Doors Thinking Want
They loop us back to places where everyone can easily go, not necessarily where we were made to go. Living a different kind of life takes some guts and grit and a new way of seeing things.
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Everyone Girl Living Necessarily Seeing Things
The shallow end of hope is usually the deep end of grace.
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Ends Grace Shallow
We’ll become whoever we trust the most says we are.
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Become Most Say Trust

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