Bob Goff Quotes
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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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Selfless love is always costly; fear can't afford it, pride doesn't understand it and friends never forget it.
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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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We need to make our faith our very own love story.
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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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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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The shallow end of hope is usually the deep end of grace.
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We spend a lot of energy remembering failures God spent a lot of love saying we could forget.
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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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I don't know every step I'm supposed to take. I think Jesus just wants me to take the next step.
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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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Don't let other people decide who you are.
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The battle for our hearts is fought on the pages of our calendar.
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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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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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God's never as nervous about our future, or as concerned about our past, as we are.
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It will be more love, not more information, that will change our hearts.
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God often waits until we're out of ideas before He lets us know His plans. He competes for our hearts, not our attention.
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When love is a theory, it's safe, it's free of risk. But love in the brain changes nothing.
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I once heard somebody say that God had closed a door on an opportunity they had hoped for. But I've always wondered if when we want to do something that we know is right and good, God places that desire deep in our hearts because He wants it for us and it honors Him. Maybe there are times when we think a door has been closed and, instead of misinterpreting the circumstances, God wants us to kick it down. Or perhaps just sit outside of it long enough until somebody tells us we can come in.
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Insecurity wants us to keep track of our failures; grace doesn't even write them down.
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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.