Bob Goff Quotes
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See people for who they're becoming. Not who they were.
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Most of us have all the information we need. What we need is more passion.
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God's big plan: go love everybody, always!
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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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...love is never stationary.
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Fix your eyes on Jesus; it's ok to stare.
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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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Words people say not only have a shelf life but have the ability to shape life.
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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 need to make our faith our very own love story.
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We keep asking for answers; God keeps sending us people.
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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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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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God made beauty so we'd know how He felt about us.
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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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Here's our job as believers, love everybody ALWAYS!
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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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That's one of those things about love. It always assumes it can find a way to express itself.
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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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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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Live your life like you're exactly who Jesus thinks you are.
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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 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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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.