Bob Goff Quotes
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God doesn't break things so He can fix them; He fixes broken things so He can use them.
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There's a difference between a caper and a prank. A prank is like playing Ding-Dong-Ditch, you know, you ring the doorbell and then run and hide in the ditch. That's a prank. It has no shelf life, like reassembling the principal's car up on the roof of the gym. It's cute and everything but there's no shelf-life, and it can actually be kind of destructive. But a caper is different. It's something where everybody has made it in.
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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.
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I learned that faith isn’t about knowing all of the right stuff or obeying a list of rules. It’s something more, something more costly because it involves being present and making a sacrifice.
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Living a life fully engaged in full of whimsy and the kind of things that love does is something most people plan to do, but along the way they just kind of forget.
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The most beautiful scenery in the world is when our friends come into view.
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...love is never stationary.
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But the kind of love that God created and demonstrated is a costly one because it involves sacrifice and presence. It's a love that operates more like a sign language than being spoken outright.
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God's big plan: go love everybody, always!
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God never said He'd eliminate all of the chaos from our lives; He just said He'd bring meaning to it.
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One thing I do is (and I realize this might sound nuts), every month or so, I try to take like an Etch-a-sketch so to speak, and I clear my faith. I go to zero, clear the deck. And I start adding things back to my faith, one at a time. What would be the first thing I'd add back? Jesus. It sounds a little bit like a Sunday school answer, but that's what I do. Then what's the next thing? And I'd say, well, loving people. And then the next.
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I don't think anyone aims to be typical, really. Most people even vow to themselves some time in high school or college not to be typical. But still, they just kind of loop back to it somehow. Like the circular rails of a train at an amusement park, the scripts we know offer a brand of security, of predictability, of safety for us. But the problem is, they only take us where we've already been. They loop us back to places where everyone can easily go, not necessarily where we were made to go. Living a different kind of life takes some guts and grit and a new way of seeing things.
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Insecurity wants us to keep track of our failures; grace doesn't even write them down.
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We can be the light of the world without leaving our high beams on and annoying everybody.
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Do one thing that's heroic for you today - big or small - and fear won't define you anymore.
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The teachers I've learned the most from, didn't think they were teaching me; they just thought we were friends.
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When you are in high school, you don't give much thought to what you can't do. For most people, that gets learned later, and for still fewer, gets unlearned for the rest of life.
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Small streams don't plan to be mighty rivers. We just move in a direction; God decides what He'll have us become.
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Sometimes the things we think are the impediments are actually the path.
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That's one of those things about love. It always assumes it can find a way to express itself.
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Living a life fully engaged and full of whimsy and the kind of things that love does is something most people plan to do, but along the way they just kind of forget. Their dreams become one of those "we'll go there next time" deferrals. The sad thing is, for many there is no "next time" because passing on the chance to cross over is an overall attitude toward life rather than a single decision.
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Grace means we don't need to airbrush our lives to make them look like they're working.
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Here's our job as believers, love everybody ALWAYS!
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When you trust someone, you don't need to know everything.