Bob Goff Quotes

Stand up like a mountain; have faith like a rock; love like an avalanche

Every day God invites us on the same kind of adventure. It's not a trip where He sends us a rigid itinerary, He simply invites us. God asks what it is He's made us to love, what it is that captures our attention, what feeds that deep indescribable need of our souls to experience the richness of the world He made. And then, leaning over us, He whispers, "Let's go do that together.

Embrace uncertainty. Some of the most beautiful chapters in our lives won't have a title until much later.

Don't let not knowing how it'll end keep you from beginning. Uncertainty chases us out into the open where God is waiting.

God never said He'd eliminate all of the chaos from our lives; He just said He'd bring meaning to it.

Selfless love is always costly; fear can't afford it, pride doesn't understand it and friends never forget it.

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.

No one leads people to Jesus; He leads people to Himself. All the pressure's off; just go love everybody without agenda.

Instead of closing our eyes and bowing our heads, sometimes God wants us to keep our eyes open for people in need, do something about it, and bow our whole lives to Him instead.

We won't be distracted by comparison if we're captivated with purpose.

The way we love people we disagree with is the best evidence of what we really believe.

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.

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.

God pursues us into whatever dark place we've landed and behind whatever locked door holds us in. He holds our unwashed and dirty hands and models how He wants us to pursue each other And He says to ordinary people like me and you that instead of closing our eyes and bowing our heads, sometimes God wants us to keep our eyes open for people in need, do something about it, and bow our whole lives to Him instead.

Courage doesn't mean we're not afraid anymore, it just means our actions aren't controlled by our doubts.

The teachers I've learned the most from, didn't think they were teaching me; they just thought we were friends.

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.

Figure out what fuels your joy, then do lots of that

We can't always see people's pain; they can always feel our love.

Day turned to night, His friends scattered and death thought it had won. But heaven just started counting to three

Most people need love and acceptance a lot more than they need advice.

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.

It will be the people with the greatest love, not the most information, who will influence us to change.

God doesn't break things so He can fix them; He fixes broken things so He can use them.

Don't save up love like you're trying to retire on it; give it away like you're made of it.

It has always seemed to me that broken things, just like broken people, get used more; it's probably because God has more pieces to work with.

Most of our decisions are driven by either love or fear. Figure out who's doing the talking, then decide what you'll do.

We determine how much influence we'll have, when we decide how available we'll be.

Stop doing what you're able to do and figure out what you were made to do - then do lots of that.

I think God’s hope and plan for us is pretty simple to figure out. For those who resonate with formulas, here it is: add your whole life, your loves, your passions, and your interests together with what God said He wants us to be about, and that’s your answer.

God isn't trying to make our lives easier; He wants to make them more meaningful.

People who want to manipulate you will fear your joy, because it's not easily controlled.

Love like there's no tomorrow; live like there's no yesterday. We're forgiven; now go love people like we believe it

See people for who they're becoming. Not who they were.

Loving people the way Jesus did, means living a life of constant interruptions. Bring it.

No book is a chapter, no chapter tells the whole story, no mistake defines who we are. Hope makes our lives page turners.

I've learned that God sometimes allows us to find ourselves in a place where we want something so bad that we can't see past it. Sometimes we can't even see God because of it. When we want something that bad, it's easy to mistake what we truly need for the thing we really want. When this sort of thing happens, and it seems to happen to everyone, I've found it's because what God has for us is obscured from view, just around another bend in the road.

Stop telling people how far they have left to go. Instead tell them how far they’ve come.

What I've learned the more time I've spent following Jesus is that God delights in answering our impossible prayers.

I used to think God wouldn’t talk to me, but now I know I’m just selective with what I choose to hear.

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.

The way we deal with uncertainty says a lot about whether Jesus is ahead of us leading, or behind us just carrying our stuff.

Love does whatever it takes to multiply itself and somehow along the way everyone becomes a part of it.

Too often we are posers. Don't be afraid. Be you. Live a life worthy of the calling YOU'VE received.

Love God. Love people. And do stuff. That's my punch list everyday.

Grace means we can put the chalk away and stop keeping score!

The real game of Bigger and Better that Jesus is playing with us usually isn't about money or possessions or even our hopes. It's about our pride. He asks if we'll give up that thing we're so proud of, that thing we believe causes us to matter in the eyes of the world, and give it up to follow Him. He's asking us, 'Will you take what you think defines you, leave it behind, and let Me define who you are instead?'

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.

Every time we see people as ordinary, we turn the wine back into water.

Whatever you're aiming for, God's better.