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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.

Bob Goff

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Bob Goff
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: February 22
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Don't save up love like you're trying to retire on it give it away like you're made of it.
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Live your life like you're exactly who Jesus thinks you are.
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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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Be ambitious about things that last.
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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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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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We won't be distracted by comparison if we're captivated with purpose.
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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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Faith isn't figuring out what we're able to do, it's deciding what we're going to do - even when we think we can't.
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We'll never honor Christ if we forget how to honor each other.
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The world will figure out what we really believe, by watching what we actually do.
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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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I don't think success is what we've made of ourselves I think it's what we've made of others.
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Love has the kind of power criticism only wishes it had.
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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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The way we treat people we disagree with most is a report card on what we've learned about love.
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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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Most of our decisions are driven by either love or fear. Figure out who's doing the talking, then decide what you'll do.
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