Bob Goff Quotes

I used to think I could shape the circumstances around me, but now I know Jesus uses circumstances to shape me.

Bob Goff

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• Constant togetherness is fine - but only for Siamese twins.

  

  Victoria Billings
  • Fine
  • Twins
  • Togetherness

• I'm just an ordinary, walking-down-the-street, mother of two children who sings for her supper.

  

  Eddi Reader
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Street

• I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Time
  • Better

• Even as a kid, I was a businessman. I figured out that if you plucked all the berries off my neighbor's tree and smashed them up, they made a Nickelodeon Gak-type consistency. I sold them to all the neighborhood kids and made stacks of quarters. Of course, the berries were poisonous, and I got in all types of trouble.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Tree

• The most important message that I can give to you and to all the world is to keep the commandments of God.

  

  Harold B. Lee
  • World
  • God
  • Important

• It always feels good to put something you're proud of out in the world.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • World
  • Good
  • Proud

• We are very near the final climactic events that end with the Second Coming of Christ.

  

  Hal Lindsey
  • End
  • Christ
  • Final

• If someone doesn't have a reason to not like you in America, they talk politics or religion. Then they get to hate you and we get to be enemies.

  

  Wale
  • America
  • Hate
  • Religion

• Nationalism and racism, to take two examples, are the culturally nurtured outgrowths of simple tribalism.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Simple
  • Racism

• The eye is much more dynamic than any camera.

  

  Brian Binnie

• I didn't expect anything crazy to happen from 'True Detective.'

  

  Alexandra Daddario
  • True
  • Crazy

• Great musicians need great producers. The Beatles had George Martin.

  

  John Gourley Portugal. The Man
  • Great

• I kept extensions in until I finished high school. Although, once I got to college, that's when it all started to shift. I think it was just growing up and moving to New York, where I saw so many different people, vibes, and looks, and everyone really owned it. That led me to feel more free, take more risks, and go back into my natural hair.

  

  Jillian Hervey
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• There used to be a cruel joke that said Brazil is the country of the future, and always will be; Obama is the Brazil of today's politicians. He has obviously achieved nothing.

  

  Charles Krauthammer
  • Country
  • Future
  • Today

• The whiskey is amazing to me. I wonder why I never realized that I would like it. I wonder why I never tried it before. Liking it so much is dangerous now, and so I hold it and look through it, and drink it very slowly.

  

  Katherine Dunn
  • Why
  • Amazing
  • Wonder

• Without the meed of some melodious tear.

  

  John Milton

• Ce qu'il y a d'enivrant dans le mauvais goût, c'est le plaisir aristocratique de déplaire.

  

  Charles Baudelaire

• I’ve had 37 orthopedic operations. I ground my feet up into dust. I’ve got a new knee. I‘ve got a new spine. I’m the lucky one... I never thought going through all of it that I would be healthy at the end. And I almost wasn’t.

  

  Bill Walton
  • Up

• Government doesn't have a high tolerance for failure.

  

  John Hickenlooper
  • High
  • Failure
  • Tolerance

• It is true that going out on to the street implies the risk of accidents happening, as they would to any ordinary man or woman. But if the church stays wrapped up in itself, it will age. And if I had to choose between a wounded church that goes out on to the streets and a sick, withdrawn church, I would definitely choose the first one.

  

  Pope Francis
  • Up
  • True
  • Age

• Our initial idea with Stripe was that for people like us - those building apps and websites - it was incredibly difficult to take payments. So with an open mind, and maybe a useful lack of knowledge about the industry, we started building a payment product.

  

  John Collison
  • People
  • Mind
  • Knowledge

• I can conceive of no greater, more romantic and interesting adventure than to undertake to live like Jesus in this complicated day.

  

  Vance Havner
  • Live
  • Interesting
  • Jesus

• It is a first class human tragedy that people of the earth who claim to believe in the message of Jesus, whom they describe as the Prince of Peace, show little of that belief in actual practice.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Believe
  • Jesus
  • Human Tragedy

• I used to think I could shape the circumstances around me, but now I know Jesus uses circumstances to shape me.

  

  Bob Goff
  • Jesus
  • Circumstances
  • Shape