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Bob Goff
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February 1 - February 11, 2025
When love is a theory, it’s safe, it’s free of risk. But love in the brain changes nothing.
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.
I learned that fully loving and fully living are not only synonymous but the kind of life that Jesus invited us to be part of.
That’s what I want my life to be all about—full of abandon, whimsy, and in love. I want to be engaged to life and with life.
Finding things and losing things is what the Bible is all about.
If Jesus has taught me anything, though, it’s that sometimes you can really want to know somebody and it takes them forever to want to know you back.
friendship creates a whole new economy.
When we get our security from Christ, we no longer have to look for it in the world, and that’s a pretty good trade.
I’ve found one of the best filters you can use to trust someone is when there’s nothing for them to gain from their advice.
You don’t need to know everything when you’re with someone you trust.
It’s where one missed step, one wrong move would end it all that they realize all over again how beautiful the place they’re standing actually is, a place where they live and breathe and love well.
He wanted people who got to the “do” part of faith, not because He wanted activity, but because He wanted our faith to matter to us.
We need to make our faith our very own love story.
Collecting information about someone is not the same as knowing a person. Stalkers are ordinary people who study from afar the people they’re too afraid to really know. Jesus said that unless you know Him like a child you’ll never really know Him at all. Kids don’t care about facts, and they certainly don’t study each other. They’re just with each other; they do stuff together. That’s what Jesus had in mind.
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.