Bob Goff Love Does 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

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

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. — Bob Goff

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

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

And when each of us looks back at all the turns and folds God has allowed in our lives, I don't think it looks like a series of folded-over mistakes and do-overs that have shaped our lives. Instead, I think we'll conclude in the end that maybe we're all a little like human origami and the more creases we have, the better. — 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

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

[ ... ] the kind of love that God created and demonstrated is a costly one because it involves sacrifice and presence. — Bob Goff

Bob Goff, the craziest lawyer, love activist, world-changer I know, and the delightful author of Love Does, says this: The world can make you think that love can be picked up at a garage sale or enveloped in a Hallmark card. 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. . . . The brand of love Jesus offers is . . . more about presence than undertaking a project. It's a brand of love that doesn't just think about good things, or agree with them, or talk about them . . . Love does.1 — Lysa TerKeurst

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

When we love people but don't make it about us, we're exchanging currency we can use for a while for currency we can use forever. — Bob Goff

Love has the kind of power criticism only wishes it had. — Bob Goff

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

When love is a theory, it's safe, it's free of risk. But love in the brain changes nothing. — 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

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

The way we treat people we disagree with most is a report card on what we've learned about 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

I used to think that real love involved falling for someone; but now I think it usually involves standing for someone. — Bob Goff

People who take huge risks aren't afraid to fail. In fact, they love to fail. It's because failing means they found the edge. — Bob Goff

When you love people like Jesus, you get messy. But messy looks good on you! — 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

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

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

...love is never stationary. — Bob Goff

We need to make our faith our very own love story. — Bob Goff

A life where love does. It doesn't come in an envelope. It's ushered in by a sunrise, the sound of a bird, or the smell of coffee drifting lazily from the kitchen. — Bob Goff

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. — Bob Goff

He said we'd know the extent of out love for God by how well we loved people. — Bob Goff

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. — Bob Goff

We spend a lot of energy remembering failures God spent a lot of love saying we could forget. — Bob Goff

That's one of those things about love. It always assumes it can find a way to express itself. — Bob Goff

I used to think JESUS motivated us with ultimatums, but now I know He pursues us in LOVE. — Bob Goff

It will be more love, not more information, that will change our hearts. — Bob Goff

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

Extravagant love is never wasted. — Bob Goff

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

I don't know how to explain Bob's love except to say it is utterly and delightfully devastating. You simply cannot live the same once you know him. — Bob Goff

When you trust someone, you don't need to know everything. — Bob Goff

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

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

None of us want to make God look bad. But in the end, being fake makes God look worse. It makes people think he tastes like Crisco.
Not only that, but when we meet people who have been fed the fake stuff about who God is and what He's about, it's not surprising that they have a little indigestion. So we can either spend our time talking about wrappers or we can show them what God is really made of. We can show them that God is full of love and is the source of hope and every creative idea. People don't want to be told that their experiences were wrong or that their wrapper or someone else's wrapper is made of the wrong stuff. Instead, we get to be the ones to show them real love from God. — 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

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

Simply put: love does. — 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

Love doesn't try to be efficient; when it is most extravagant, it is least wasted. — 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

Pick something you aren't just able to do; instead, pick something you feel like you were made to do and then do lots of that. You weren't just an incredible idea that God never got around to making. The next step happened for the world when God dropped you on the planet ... God decided to have us intersect history, not at just any time, but at this time. He made us to be good at a few things and bad at a couple of others. He made us to love some things and not like others. Most of all, He made us to dream ... We're part of God's much bigger plan for the whole world. Just like God's Son arrived here, so did you. And after Jesus arrived, God whispered to all of humanity ... It's your move. — 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