Bob Goff Quotes

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 GOFF

Give Up Jesus Pride Real
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
We won’t figure out what’s sacred in life if we settle for what’s safe.
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Sacred Safe Settling
I used to think you had to be special for God to use you, but now I know you simply need to say yes.
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God Religious Thinking
Grace draws a circle around everyone and says they’re in.
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Circles Draws Grace
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
You don’t want to pick a fight with just the guy at the deli, [you want to] pick a fight somewhere in the world and just run towards it. Run because the fight is going to go on without you if you miss it.
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Fighting Guy Running Somewhere
But the kind of love that God created and demonstrated is a costly one because it involves sacrifice and presence. It’s a love that operates more like a sign language than being spoken outright.
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Kind Language Sacrifice Sign
The way we treat people we disagree with most is a report card on what we’ve learned about love.
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Cards People Way
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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Simple Sound Terrible
The shallow end of hope is usually the deep end of grace.
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Ends Grace Shallow
God makes confetti out of our titles and accomplishments to celebrate the poor and the humble.
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Accomplishment Humble Titles
Love finds us where we are, not where we were.
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Emotion Find Love Trust
Love God, love your neighbors, and do stuff!
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God Love Neighbor Stuff
We can’t always see people’s pain; they can always feel our love.
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Love Our Pain People
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
See people for who they’re becoming. Not who they were.
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Becoming Life People See
Do what lasts, get around to everything else.
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Around Everything Lasts
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
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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Bible Friday Guy Men Scripture Years
We can be the light of the world without leaving our high beams on and annoying everybody.
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Annoy Everybody Leaving Light World
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
Every time we see people as ordinary, we turn the wine back into water.
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Ordinary People Water Wine
Living a life fully engaged in 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.
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Engaged Most People Things
God’s grace comes in all shapes, sizes, and circumstances as God continues to unfold something magnificent in me.
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Grace Shapes Size
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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Enough God Perhaps Somebody Tells Wants
God finds us in the holes we dig for ourselves. We see failures; He sees foundations.
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Foundation God Holes Search

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