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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.

Bob Goff

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Bob Goff
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: February 22
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CA
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I used to think God wouldn’t talk to me, but now I know I’m just selective with what I choose to hear.
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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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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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Go be the next humblest version of yourself.
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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 JESUS motivated us with ultimatums, but now I know He pursues us in LOVE.
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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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God makes confetti out of our titles and accomplishments to celebrate the poor and the humble.
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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're all amateurs when it comes to love. Don't be too hard on each other.
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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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That's one of those things about love. It always assumes it can find a way to express itself.
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I never know what all of the steps are but I do know the next step.
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Insecurity wants us to keep track of our failures grace doesn't even write them down.
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Nobody turns down an invitation to the White House, but I’ve seen plenty of people turn down an invitation to fully live.
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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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