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I used to want to fix people, but now I just want to be with them.

Bob Goff

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Bob Goff
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: February 22
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I used to think that real love involved falling for someone but now I think it usually involves standing for someone.
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No one leads people to Jesus He leads people to Himself. All the pressure's off just go love everybody without agenda.
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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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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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Don't let not knowing how it'll end keep you from beginning. Uncertainty chases us out into the open where God is waiting.
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Cynicism is fear posing as confidence joy is hope let off the leash.
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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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The way we treat people we disagree with most is a report card on what we've learned about love.
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When you identify with an organization and you want to do stuff [but] you get this inexplicable 'no' - a lot of people get off the end and think, Well, God must have said no to me. No! The organization just said no to you. Find what it is that you were made to do and get on it! Go do what you were made to do.
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When we love people but don't make it about us, we're exchanging currency we can use for a while for currency we can use forever.
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I used to hope the things I did would work now I hope they last.
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Insecurity wants us to keep track of our failures grace doesn't even write them down.
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God often waits until we're out of ideas before He lets us know His plans. He competes for our hearts, not our attention.
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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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Our failures can leave behind pavement or potholes. Our ability to receive grace determines which it will be.
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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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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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We keep telling God our opinions He keeps asking us about our hearts. We'll grow the most when we have the right conversations.
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We plant sod where God wants 2 plant seed. He's more interested in growing our character than having us look finished.
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Do one heroic thing today big or small doesn't matter because it defines who you are and what you really believe
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