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“When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.”
― Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

“Everybody has to leave, everybody has to leave their home and come back so they can love it again for all new reasons.”
― Donald Miller, Through Painted Deserts: Light, God, and Beauty on the Open Road

“You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.”
― Jim Rohn

“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.”
― Jim Rohn

“Don't wish it were easier. Wish you were better.”
― Jim Rohn

“I used to want to fix people, but now I just want to be with them.”
― Bob Goff, Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World

“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.”
― 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

“You don't need a plan; you just need to be present.”
― Bob Goff, Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World

“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

“Simply put: love does.”
― Bob Goff, Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World

“The thing I love about God is He intentionally guides people into failure.”
― Bob Goff, Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World

“Most people need love and acceptance a lot more than they need advice.”
― Bob Goff, Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World

“I used to think God wouldn’t talk to me, but now I know I’m just selective with what I choose to hear.”
― 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

“For me, it's Jesus plus nothing-...”
― Bob Goff, Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World

“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.”
― Bob Goff, Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World

“Whimsy...needs to be fully experienced to be fully known. Whimsy doesn't care if you are the driver or the passenger; all that matters is that you are on your way.”
― Bob Goff, Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World

“I used to think you had to be special for God to use you, but now I know you simply need to say yes.”
― Bob Goff, Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World

“Being engaged is a way of doing life, a way of living and loving. It's about going to extremes and expressing the bright hope that life offers us, a hope that makes us brave and expels darkness with light. That's what I want my life to be all about - full of abandon, whimsy, and in love.”
― Bob Goff, Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World

“Legalism says God will love us if we change. The gospel says God will change us because He loves us.”
― Tullian Tchividjian

“God's ability to clean things up is infinitely greater than our ability to mess things up.”
― Tullian Tchividjian, Surprised by Grace: God's Relentless Pursuit of Rebels

“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”
― Corrie Ten Boom, Clippings from My Notebook

“Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.”
― Corrie ten Boom

“This is what the past is for! Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for the future that only He can see.”
― Corrie Ten Boom, The Hiding Place

“When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you'll be successful.”
― Eric Thomas, The Secret to Success

“If you can look up, you can get up.”
― Eric Thomas

“Don't allow the opinions of other people to shape your concept of him. Get to know him yourself, and let the goodness of God change you from the inside out.”
― Judah Smith, Jesus Is: Find a New Way to Be Human

“Sometimes we are outright rude when we interact with people. We meet a gay guy or a couple living together, and we think we have the obligation and right to warn them what God thinks about their sexuality on our first meeting. As if their sex life is the first thing on God’s agenda.
It’s not.

Love is. Grace is. Mercy is. Jesus is.”
― Judah Smith, Jesus Is: Find a New Way to Be Human

“It seemed too good to be true. That's grace.”
― Judah Smith, Jesus Is: Find a New Way to Be Human