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61 " It has always seemed to me that broken things, just like broken people, get used more; it’s probably because God has more pieces to work with. "
― Bob Goff , Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World
62 " He saw the need and he did something about it. He didn't just say he was for me or with me. He was actually present with me. "
63 " ...it seems that what God does most of the time when He has something to say is this...He doesn't pass us messages, instead he passes us each other. "
64 " Finally, and definitely the coolest part, is that you get a card from the State Department that gives you diplomatic immunity. I wasn't exactly sure what diplomatic immunity meant, so I asked around to see if I could kill someone. Not someone important, of course, but someone normal - like Doug. I never got a call back on the question so I'm operating under the assumption that I can. "
65 " I used to think I had to act a certain way to follow God, but now I know God doesn’t want us to be typical. "
66 " I learned that faith isn't about knowing all the right stuff or obeying a list of ruled. It's something more, something more costly because it involves 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. "
67 " I used to think God guided us by opening and closing doors, but now I know sometimes God wants us to kick some doors down. "
68 " The thing I love about God is that intentionally guides people into failure. "
69 " When we want something that bad, it's easy to mistake what we truly need for the thing we really want. When this sort of thing happens, and it seems to happen to everyone, I've found it's because what God has for us is obscured from view, just around another bend in the road. "
70 " Turning down this invitation comes in lots of flavors. It looks like numbing yourself or distracting yourself or seeing something really beautiful as just normal. It can also look like refusing to forgive or not being grateful or getting wrapped around the axle with fear or envy. I think every day God sends us an invitation to live and sometimes we forget to show up or get head-fakes into thinking we haven't really been invited. But you see, we have been invited - every day, all over again. "
71 " I think God pays attention to our hearts and enjoys when people want to get close to Him. He knows our sadness and the brokenness we want to hide from Him, and He sends people to look for us. "
72 " As I sit on my island, it becomes clears that 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. That's because love is never stationary. In the end, love doesn't just keep thinking about it or keep planning for it. Simply put: love does. "
73 " I wasn't a project; I was his friend. "
74 " 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. "
75 " When people realize there’s no agenda other than friendship and better understanding, it changes things. "
76 " They swapped the real thing for an image of the real thing. "
77 " 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. I want to be engaged to life and with life. "
78 " I used to think religion tasted horrible,but now I know I was just eating the fake stuff. "
79 " None of us want to make God look bad. But in the end, being fake makes God look worse. It makes people think he tastes like Crisco.Not only that, but when we meet people who have been fed the fake stuff about who God is and what He's about, it's not surprising that they have a little indigestion. So we can either spend our time talking about wrappers or we can show them what God is really made of. We can show them that God is full of love and is the source of hope and every creative idea. People don't want to be told that their experiences were wrong or that their wrapper or someone else's wrapper is made of the wrong stuff. Instead, we get to be the ones to show them real love from God. "
80 " Then the nickel must have dropped when he realized I had pranked him as he groaned under his breath, "Bob!"Doug's been trying to get back at me for years. But he can't, because I'm a lawyer. You don't get into and through law school like I did without gaining a few street smarts. "