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The way we treat people we disagree with most is a report card on what we've learned about love.

Bob Goff

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Bob Goff
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: February 22
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I used to hope the things I did would work now I hope they last.
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Start from scratch with Jesus every day and then be picky about what you add to your life.
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That's one of those things about love. It always assumes it can find a way to express itself.
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Do less of what you're terrible at and more of what you're good at. I don't know if that sounds too simple, but it's been working for me.
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Cynicism is fear posing as confidence joy is hope let off the leash.
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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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I never know what all of the steps are but I do know the next step.
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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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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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