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Don't let other people decide who you are.

Bob Goff

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Bob Goff
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: February 22
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We spend a lot of energy remembering failures God spent a lot of love saying we could forget.
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I used to think that real love involved falling for someone but now I think it usually involves standing for someone.
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You don't want to pick a fight with just the guy at the deli, [you want to] pick a fight somewhere in the world and just run towards it. Run because the fight is going to go on without you if you miss it.
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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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...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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There are lots of things we're able to do, but I'd like to land on the one thing I was MADE to do.
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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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I want to go barefoot because it’s holy ground I want to be running because time is short and none of us has as much runway as we think we do and I want it to be a fight because that’s where we can make a difference. That’s what love does.
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Sometimes we ask God for help and God gives us hope, not because it's different, but because it's the same.
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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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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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Great love leaves little doubt.
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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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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 often waits until we're out of ideas before He lets us know His plans. He competes for our hearts, not our attention.
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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.
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The shallow end of hope is usually the deep end of grace.
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Next to grace, I bet God thinks making us need each other was one of His best ideas.
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Day turned to night, His friends scattered and death thought it had won. But heaven just started counting to three
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