Bob Goff Quotes
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We keep asking for answers; God keeps sending us people.
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God's big plan: go love everybody, always!
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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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God made beauty so we'd know how He felt about us.
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Sometimes we ask God for help and God gives us hope, not because it's different, but because it's the same.
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I'm all for getting together with men and women in small groups around Scripture and letting it just wash over us, but for me, I've been meeting with the same ten guys for like 15 years now, but we don't have a Bible study every Friday, we have a Bible doing.
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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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Fix your eyes on Jesus; it's ok to stare.
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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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Our failures can leave behind pavement or potholes. Our ability to receive grace determines which it will be.
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Most of us have all the information we need. What we need is more passion.
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Words people say not only have a shelf life but have the ability to shape life.
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See people for who they're becoming. Not who they were.
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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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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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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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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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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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We need to make our faith our very own love story.
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I used to hope the things I did would work; now I hope they last.
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Here's our job as believers, love everybody ALWAYS!
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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.