Bob Goff Quotes

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Love doesn't just keep thinking about it or keep planning for it... Simply put: Love does!

Bob Goff
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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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. The sad thing is, for many there is no "next time" because passing on the chance to cross over is an overall attitude toward life rather than a single decision.

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We're part of God's much bigger plan for the whole world. Just like God's Son arrived here, so did you. And after Jesus arrived, God whispered to all of humanity It's your move.

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I used to be afraid of failing at something that really mattered to me, but now I'm more afraid of succeeding at things that don't matter.

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I want to go barefoot because it's holy ground; I want to be running because time is short and none of us has as much runway as we think we do; and I want it to be a fight because that's where we can make a difference. That's what love does.

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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, a hope that makes us brave and expels darkness with light. That's what I want my life to be all about - full of abandon, whimsy, and in love.

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When love is a theory, it's safe, it's free of risk. But love in the brain changes nothing.

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God pursues us into whatever dark place we've landed and behind whatever locked door holds us in. He holds our unwashed and dirty hands and models how He wants us to pursue each other And He says to ordinary people like me and you that instead of closing our eyes and bowing our heads, sometimes God wants us to keep our eyes open for people in need, do something about it, and bow our whole lives to Him instead.

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We all want to have a place where we can dream and escape anything that wraps steel bands around our imagination and creativity.

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We need to stop plotting the course and instead just land the plane on our plans to make a difference by getting to the "do" part of faith.

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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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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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We get to be God's plan for the whole world by pointing people toward Him.

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I used to think being loved was the greatest thing to think about, but now I know love is never satisfied just thinking about it.

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I used to think I could shape the circumstances around me, but now I know Jesus uses circumstances to shape me.

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People who take huge risks aren't afraid to fail. In fact, they love to fail. It's because failing means they found the edge.

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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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Love does whatever it takes to multiply itself and somehow along the way everyone becomes a part of it.

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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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Every day God invites us on the same kind of adventure. It's not a trip where He sends us a rigid itinerary, He simply invites us. God asks what it is He's made us to love, what it is that captures our attention, what feeds that deep indescribable need of our souls to experience the richness of the world He made. And then, leaning over us, He whispers, "Let's go do that together.

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Failure is just part of the process, and it's not just okay; it's better than okay. God doesn't want failure to shut us down. God didn't make it a three-strikes-and-you're-out sort of thing. It's more about how God helps us dust ourselves off so we can swing for the fences again. And all of this without keeping a meticulous record of our screw-ups.

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I used to think life could be shared with anyone,
but now I know choosing the right people is pretty important.

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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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God's grace comes in all shapes, sizes, and circumstances as God continues to unfold something magnificent in me.

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The thing I love about God is He intentionally guides people into failure.

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I think God's hope and plan for us is pretty simple to figure out. 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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I used to want to fix people, but now I just want to be with them.

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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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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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