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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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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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