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Every day God invites us on the same kind of adventure. It’s not a trip where He sends us a rigid itinerary, He simply invites us. God asks what it is He’s made us to love, what it is that captures our attention, what feeds that deep indescribable need of our souls to experience the richness of the world He made. And then, leaning over us, He whispers, “Let’s go do that together.
— Bob Goff
Living a life fully engaged and 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. Their dreams become one of those “we’ll go there next time” deferrals. The sad thing is, for many there is no “next time” because passing on the chance to cross over is an overall attitude toward life rather than a single decision.
— Bob Goff, Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World
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.
— Bob Goff, Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World
Jesus lets us be real with our life and our faith.
— Bob Goff, Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World
…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.
— Bob Goff, Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World
I don’t think anyone aims to be typical, really. Most people even vow to themselves some time in high school or college not to be typical. But still, they just kind of loop back to it somehow. Like the circular rails of a train at an amusement park, the scripts we know offer a brand of security, of predictability, of safety for us. But the problem is, they only take us where we’ve already been. They loop us back to places where everyone can easily go, not necessarily where we were made to go. Living a different kind of life takes some guts and grit and a new way of seeing things.
— Bob Goff, Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World
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.
— Bob Goff, Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World
When you trust someone, you don’t need to know everything.
— Bob Goff, Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World
I learned that faith isn’t about knowing all of the right stuff or obeying a list of rules. It’s something more, something more costly because it being present and making a sacrifice. Perhaps that’s why Jesus is sometimes called Immanuel – “God with us.” I think that’s what God had in mind, for Jesus to be present, to just be with us. It’s also what He has in mind for us when it comes to other people.
— Bob Goff, Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World
Thinking about work as a day job has made a big difference in the way I approach what I do. It also helped me not to confuse who I am with what I do.
— Bob Goff, Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World
That’s one of those things about love. It always assumes it can find a way to express itself.
— Bob Goff, Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World
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.
— Bob Goff, Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World
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