Bob Goff Quotes & Sayings

Because of our love for each other, I understand just a little more how God has pursued me in creative and whimsical ways, ways the initially did not get my attention. Nevertheless, He wouldn't stop. That's what love does - it pursues blindly, unflinchingly, and without end. — Bob Goff

Love God, love your neighbors, and do stuff! — Bob Goff

We might be known for what we believed, but we're certain to be remembered for what we did about it. — Bob Goff

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. — Bob Goff

Stop telling people how far they have left to go. Instead tell them how far they've come. — Bob Goff

The shallow end of hope is usually the deep end of grace. — Bob Goff

I don't think Bible verses were meant to be thrown like grenades at each other. They were meant for us to use to point each other toward love and grace and invite us into something much bigger. — Bob Goff

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

Don't let who you were talk you out of who you are becoming. — Bob Goff

Cynicism is fear posing as confidence; joy is hope let off the leash. — Bob Goff

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

Grace works that way. It's a kind word from a gentle person with an impossible prayer. It's a force sometimes transmitted best hand to hand in a dark place. — Bob Goff

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

Living a life fully engaged in 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. — Bob Goff

Surround yourself with prompts that remind you who Jesus is. — Bob Goff

Jesus won't try to speak over the noise in our lives; love whispers so we won't be confused about who's doing the talking. — Bob Goff

Sometimes the things we think are the impediments are actually the path. — Bob Goff

Insecurity wants us to keep track of our failures;
grace doesn't even write them down. — Bob Goff

God doesn't want failure to shut us down. — Bob Goff

Whatever you're aiming for, God's better. — Bob Goff

If we only do what we're familiar with, we might miss what we've been made for. — Bob Goff

I want to live in a new normal where I can reach out to people who are different from me and just be friends. — Bob Goff

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

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 being present and making a sacrifice. Perhaps that's why Jesus is sometimes called Immanuel - "God with us." I think that's what God had in mind, for Jesus to be present, to just be with us. It's also what He has in mind for us when it comes to other people. — Bob Goff

Am I the right guy? I don't know, but I'm the guy being asked, and the last thing I want to do is miss an opportunity or make God mad, so I just keep saying yes. — Bob Goff

The words we speak to each other should leave stretch marks, not bruises. Love is always picky about what it says. — Bob Goff

[ ... ] what God really wants for us is something much different, something more tailored to us. — Bob Goff

I used to think you had to be special for God to use you, but now I know you simply need to say yes. — Bob Goff

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

Secretly incredible people keep what they do one of God's best-kept secrets because the only one who needs to know, the God of the universe, already knows. — Bob Goff

Bob Goff loves people with a force that is natural, and by natural I mean like nature, like a waterfall or wind or waves on the ocean. He loves effortlessly, as though love packs annually in snow on a mountain, melting and rushing through him in an infinite loop. — Bob Goff

There's a lot to be concerned about; there's more to be hopeful for. — Bob Goff

God's never as nervous about our future, or as concerned about our past, as we are. — Bob Goff

That's because love is never stationary. In the end, love doesn't just keep thinking about it or keep planning for it. Simply put: love does. — Bob Goff

I used to hope the things I did would work; now I hope they last. — Bob Goff

They swapped the real thing for an image of the real thing. — Bob Goff

We get to decide each time whether we will lean in toward what is unfolding and say yes or back away. — Bob Goff

You don't need a plan; you just need to be present. — Bob Goff

I think God sometimes uses the completely inexplicable events in our lives to point us toward Him. We get to decide each time whether we will lean in toward what is unfolding and say yes or back away. The folks who were following Jesus in Galilee got to decide the same thing each day because there was no road map, no program, and no certainty. All they had was this person, an idea, and an invitation to come and see. — Bob Goff

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

Love finds us where we are, not where we were. — Bob Goff

Whimsy doesn't care if you are the driver or the passenger; all that matters is that you are on your way. — Bob Goff

We all want to have a place where we can dream and escape anything that wraps steel bands around our imagination and creativity. — Bob Goff

What distracts us will begin to define us. We don't need to swing at every pitch. — Bob Goff

We keep telling God our opinions; He keeps asking us about our hearts. We'll grow the most when we have the right conversations. — Bob Goff

The thing I love about God is He intentionally guides people into failure. — Bob Goff

Love one another. We don't need more instructions; we need more examples. — Bob Goff

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

We get to be God's plan for the whole world by pointing people toward Him. — Bob Goff

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. — Bob Goff

I want to be doing things today, not just flipping through crinkled and yellowed mental pictures of what happened a long time ago. — Bob Goff

Son, you need to look through the scope at the things that are far away, but you also need to take your eye away long enough to see what's close. — Bob Goff

If Jesus has taught me anything, though, it's that sometimes you can really want to know somebody and it takes them forever to want to know you back. — Bob Goff

There is only one invitation it would kill me to refuse, yet I'm tempted to turn it down all the time. I get the invitation every morning when I wake up to actually live a life of complete engagement, a life of whimsy, a life where love does. — Bob Goff

Sometimes we ask God for help and God gives us hope, not because it's different, but because it's the same. — Bob Goff

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

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

For me, it's Jesus plus nothing-... — Bob Goff

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

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. — Bob Goff

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 out hearts because He wants it for us and it honors Him. Maybe there are times when we think a door has been close 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 some in. — Bob Goff

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. — Bob Goff

We need to wash the feet of our enemies. — Bob Goff

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

Don't let other people decide who you are. — Bob Goff

God finds us in the holes we dig for ourselves. We see failures; He sees foundations. — Bob Goff

I wasn't a project; I was his friend. — Bob Goff

Simply put: love does. — Bob Goff

I used to be afraid of failing at something that really mattered to me, but now I'm more afraid of succeeding at things that don't matter. — Bob Goff

God's big plan: go love everybody, always! — Bob Goff

Extravagant love is never wasted. — Bob Goff

He was all about engagement. — Bob Goff

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. — Bob Goff

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. — Bob Goff

God made beauty so we'd know how He felt about us. — Bob Goff

Jesus lets us be real with our life and our faith. — Bob Goff

Do one heroic thing today; big or small doesn't matter because it defines who you are and what you really believe — Bob Goff

I used to want to fix people, but now I just want to be with them. — Bob Goff

I used to think I had to act a certain way to follow God, but now I know God doesn't want us to be typical. — Bob Goff

[ ... ] I believed words still had power when they are said by the right people. — Bob Goff

I used to think religion tasted horrible,
but now I know I was just eating the fake stuff. — Bob Goff

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

Here's our job as believers, love everybody ALWAYS! — Bob Goff

Wouldn't it be a horrible thing if we studied the ones we loved instead of bonding in deeper ways to doing things with them? — Bob Goff

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

Live a life of conspicuous grace and courageous resolve. — Bob Goff

If you are a sincere friend, folks around you will quickly understand that there's no hidden agenda and nothing on the other side of the equals sign - just you. — Bob Goff

Following Jesus is about having your paradigms shift as you navigate a wide range of emotions while living the big life Jesus invites us into. — Bob Goff

The most beautiful scenery in the world is when our friends come into view. — Bob Goff

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. — Bob Goff

The world will figure out what we really believe, by watching what we actually do. — Bob Goff

We plant sod where God wants 2 plant seed. He's more interested in growing our character than having us look finished. — Bob Goff

He didn't tell me I was a fool and that my idea would fall off the tracks on the way to the launchpad. He didn't tell me I would surely crater even if I did briefly lift off. He was resolute, unequivocal, and had no agenda. He was with me. — Bob Goff

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

I used to think I needed an invitation to get into most places, but now I know I'm already invited. — Bob Goff

I used to think being loved was the greatest thing to think about, but now I know love is never satisfied just thinking about it. — Bob Goff

When I think about satan, my thoughts go to how Jesus interacted with him in the desert. Jesus spoke with him for just a few seconds and then sent him away. Satan was a manipulator who wanted to control God, but Jesus had a relationship with God that satan didn't understand, and Jesus had no problem telling him off and getting rid of him. I think we should do the same. — Bob Goff

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

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. — Bob Goff

I used to think I could learn about Jesus by studying Him, but now I know Jesus doesn't want stalkers. — Bob Goff