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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 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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Stop telling people how far they have left to go. Instead tell them how far they’ve come.
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I know that sounds so circular, but for you, what you were made to do, is different than what I was made to do. But instead of spending all of our time having Bible studies about what we were made to do, go do stuff and you'll figure out what you were made to do, because you'll be great at some things and you'll be terrible at others.
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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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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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