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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
Exchanging
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Forever
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Love
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If you get a no from somebody, don't say, 'I'm going to take this as some big cosmic signal.' No, you just got a no, deal with it. Just go to the next step.
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Courage doesn't mean we're not afraid anymore, it just means our actions aren't controlled by our doubts.
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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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Don't let other people decide who you are.
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We'll never honor Christ if we forget how to honor each other.
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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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If we only do what we're familiar with, we might miss what we've been made for.
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You can quit anything on a Thursday.
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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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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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What distracts us will begin to define us. We don't need to swing at every pitch.
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What I noticed, though, is almost every time I type the word love, it gets changed to the word live… 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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I learned that faith isn’t about knowing all of the right stuff or obeying a list of rules. It’s something more, something more costly because it involves being present and making a sacrifice.
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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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Whatever you're aiming for, God's better.
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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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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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