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11 Times Bob Goff Taught Us What Love Is

"Give away love like you're made of the stuff"

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11 Times Bob Goff  Taught Us What Love Is
Bob Goff

Bob Goff is the New York Times best selling author of Love Does. He founded the organization Restore International that has developed schools in Uganda, Iraq, Nepal, and many other countries! He is a lawyer, father, husband, and most importantly, child of God.

If you can't tell by now, I am a huge fan of Bob and the way he takes no credit for the way he loves others, but instead attributes it all back to Christ. He showed us what it meant to give your life away in your faith and to give up all the love that God gives to us and give it to others. He explains in his book that we do not need to hold on to it because Christ's love is overflowing and never ending. It's not going anywhere. Bob teaches us to share this gift in the ways you know best. The words you use can change everything. Love is so simple so simply spread it.

Here are a few instances where Bob showed us what Love is and what it looks like in our own lives and faith:

1. "I used to want to fix people, but now I just want to be with them"

2."You don't need a plan; you just need to be present "

3. "Give away love like you're made of the stuff"

4. "We're all amateurs when it comes to love. Don't be too hard on each other"

5. "Love everybody, always"

6. " I used to think that you had to be special for God to use you, but now I know you simply need to say yes"

7. "Don't save up love like you're trying to retire in it; give it away like you're made of it"

8. "We can't always see people's pain, but they can always feel our love"

9. "That's what love does- it pursues blindly, unflinchingly, and without end. When you go after something you love, you'll do anything it takes to get it, even if it costs everything "

10. "We need to make our faith our very own love story"

11. "Selfless love is always costly; fear can't afford it, pride doesn't understand it, and friends never forget it"

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