Bob Goff Quotes
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Failure is just part of the process, and it's not just okay; it's better than okay. God doesn't want failure to shut us down. God didn't make it a three-strikes-and-you're-out sort of thing. It's more about how God helps us dust ourselves off so we can swing for the fences again. And all of this without keeping a meticulous record of our screw-ups.
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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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Love one another. We don't need more instructions; we need more examples.
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No book is a chapter, no chapter tells the whole story, no mistake defines who we are. Hope makes our lives page turners.
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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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We won't be like Jesus if it's more important to us to be like each other. God doesn't compare what he creates.
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We need to make our faith our very own love story.
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Don't let other people decide who you are.
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Sometimes the things we think are the impediments are actually the path.
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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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I used to want to fix people, but now I just want to be with them.
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That's all the information I need to know about the church, Jesus picked it. And so instead of me telling the church how she would really look better if she had this in her hair, or that over there, I think I'm just respecting the Groom's pick.
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God keeps telling us to be not afraid, to go big.
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I used to think that real love involved falling for someone; but now I think it usually involves standing for someone.
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The words we speak to each other should leave stretch marks, not bruises. Love is always picky about what it says.
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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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It will be more love, not more information, that will change our hearts.
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I want to go barefoot because it’s holy ground; I want to be running because time is short and none of us has as much runway as we think we do; and I want it to be a fight because that’s where we can make a difference. That’s what love does.
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The battle for our hearts is fought on the pages of our calendar.
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Something happens when you feel ownership. You no longer act like a spectator or consumer, because you're an owner. Faith is at its best when it's that way too. It's best lived when it's owned.
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Insecurity wants us to keep track of our failures; grace doesn't even write them down.
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God's never as nervous about our future, or as concerned about our past, as we are.
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Courageous people feel the same fear everyone else does, they just decide to not be afraid anymore.
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When love is a theory, it's safe, it's free of risk. But love in the brain changes nothing.