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Bob Goff is the author of the New York Times Best-Selling book Love Does. The U.S. Department of State recognizes Goff as a diplomat and he is known as an Honorary Consul for the Republic of Uganda due to his work with Love Does, formerly known as Restore International, a non-profit organization he founded.

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Living a life of following Christ means constant interruptions.

Constant, Following, Following Christ, Living, Mean

God often waits until we're out of ideas before He lets us know His plans. He competes for our hearts, not our attention.

Attention, God, Heart, Ideas, Lets, Waiting

We all want to have a place where we can dream and escape anything that wraps steel bands around our imagination and creativity.

Creativity, Dream, Imagination, Place, Wraps

God's grace comes in all shapes, sizes, and circumstances as God continues to unfold something magnificent in me.

God, Grace, Shapes, Size

Jesus lets us be real with our life and our faith.

Being Real, Jesus, Lets, Life, Real

I used to be afraid of failing at something that really mattered to me, but now I'm more afraid of succeeding at things that don't matter.

Afraid, Failing, Matter, Mattered, Succeed, Succeeding

Love doesn't try to be efficient; when it is most extravagant, it is least wasted.

Efficient, Extravagant, Trying, Wasted

What I've learned the more time I've spent following Jesus is that God delights in answering our impossible prayers.

Delight, God, Jesus, Prayer, Prayers, Spent

I used to think life could be shared with anyone, but now I know choosing the right people is pretty important.

Important, People, Pretty, Think, Thinking

No book is a chapter, no chapter tells the whole story, no mistake defines who we are. Hope makes our lives page turners.

Book, Lives, Mistake, Page, Stories, Story

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

Cards, Love, People, Report, Way

When it feels like we need to choose between being right and being humble- pick both

Choose, Feels, Humble, Needs, Right

We determine how much influence we'll have, when we decide how available we'll be.

Available, Determine, Influence

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.

Good, Simple, Sound, Sounds, Terrible, Working

God pursues us into whatever dark place we've landed and behind whatever locked door holds us in. He holds our unwashed and dirty hands and models how He wants us to pursue each other And He says to ordinary people like me and you that instead of closing our eyes and bowing our heads, sometimes God wants us to keep our eyes open for people in need, do something about it, and bow our whole lives to Him instead.

Dark, Dirty, Eye, Eyes, Pursue, Says

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.

Dark, Hand, Hands, Kind, Prayer, Way

I think of the church as this bride of Christ, who is incredibly capable of doing amazing things. And so where we see injustice, we come, not with fists clenched but with palms up.

Amazing, Capable, Church, Fists, Thinking

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.

Friday, Groups, Men, Same, Years

Fear will give us a reason not to try; hope will give us a reason not to listen.

Give, Giving, Hope, Reason, Trying

What I noticed, though, is almost every time I type the word love, it gets changed to the word live… 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.

Jesus, Kind, Living, Noticed, Type

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