Bob Goff Quotes
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Fix your eyes on Jesus; it's ok to stare.
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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 know that sounds so circular, but for you, what you were made to do, is different than what I was made to do. But instead of spending all of our time having Bible studies about what we were made to do, go do stuff and you'll figure out what you were made to do, because you'll be great at some things and you'll be terrible at others.
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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.
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See people for who they're becoming. Not who they were.
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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.
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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 doesn't break things so He can fix them; He fixes broken things so He can use them.
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We keep asking for answers; God keeps sending us people.
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Too often we are posers. Don't be afraid. Be you. Live a life worthy of the calling YOU'VE received.
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We need to make our faith our very own love story.
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Here's our job as believers, love everybody ALWAYS!
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Words people say not only have a shelf life but have the ability to shape life.
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We plant sod where God wants 2 plant seed. He's more interested in growing our character than having us look finished.
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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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...love is never stationary.
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Whimsy doesn't care if you are the driver or the passenger; all that matters is that you are on your way.
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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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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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What I noticed, though, is almost every time I type the word love, it gets changed to the word live… I learned that fully loving and fully living are not only synonymous but the kind of life that Jesus invited us to be part of.
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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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Most of us have all the information we need. What we need is more passion.
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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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Do one thing that's heroic for you today - big or small - and fear won't define you anymore.