Goff Quotes & Sayings

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

During my training I was trained in Psycho-politics. This was the art of capturing the minds of a nation through brainwashing and fake mental health. — Kenneth 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

Bullies are people who use conflict as a means for obtaining power. Some young people grow out of this; others don't and become old bullies. — Bob Goff

Don't let uncertainty talk you into pursuing a backup plan instead of your purpose. — Bob Goff

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

We'll never honor Christ if we forget how to honor each other. — Bob Goff

The starkest reality of war is that the enemy is never really a monster, never inhuman ... Every soldier is the same fallible breed of human that we are. The making of war, even the most necessary and 'just' war, hardens human hearts. — Stan Goff

See people for who they're becoming. Not who they were. — Bob Goff

We can be the light of the world without leaving our high beams on and annoying everybody. — Bob Goff

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

The people who slowly became typical have the greatest problem wrapping their minds around a dynamic friendship with an invisible, alive God. — 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

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

Living a life of following Christ means constant interruptions. — Bob Goff

So, are you in the tree for any particular reason or are you indulging a long-held desire to be a bird? — Mandy Goff

He kissed me tenderly as my heart thumped out of control. My fingers slipped into his thick, black hair and held tightly. He paused, not wanting to pull away. I didn't let him. I was going to say goodbye properly. I held tightly, pressing my lips to his, soft at first then hard with desire. — Leigh Goff

So here I am, a white man telling Black children to not give white people the benefit of the doubt. It's not prejudice I'm giving them, it's survival. Don't talk to strangers. Don't trust white folk you don't know. Don't trust cops. The basics. When Black folk don't want to walk right up and be my friend, I don't take it personally, and I don't get defensive. And I'll tell other thin-skinned white people the same thing. It's not personal. It's survival. Get used to it, and quit whining. — Stan Goff

I trust God because He's the best author. I think God doesn't spell out everything for us in life, but He does tell us how we can write our lives better; and trusting Him implicitly is always the right place to start. — 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

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

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

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

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. — Bob Goff

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

I guess that guy who ends up with the girl sometimes is just as insecure as the guy who gets dumped by her. — Bob Goff

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

Let beauty influence the architecture of thought — Matthew Goff

I felt small, like one does when the distance between stars occasionally asserts itself into your understanding, like when your own death's inevitability leaps in front of you in the middle of the night when you get up to pee. — Stan 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

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

American culture is a sheep culture - long on talk about individualism, but even longer on absolute conformity. Most still believe that individuality is based on which model car you like best - commodity identity, a selection of personalities on a shelf full of products approved by the Federal Identity Administration. I'm a Taurus aspiring to be a Lexus. — Stan Goff

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

Faith isn't figuring out what we're able to do, it's deciding what we're going to do - even when we think we can't. — Bob Goff

Simply put: love does. — 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

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

I want to listen to accomplished women scarred by sexism that still walk in elegance and kindness; hear powerful men that have a heart to serve. I want to talk to the brokenhearted that still believe in love; I want to listen to people that laugh even when they hurt. You live God's grace without even knowing it and to me, you're the best of all of us. — Lee Goff

Live your life like you're exactly who Jesus thinks you are. — 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

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

It seemed so natural, receiving it, watching others receive it, assuming that the approval of others determined our worth. Then one day we found we couldn't feel any worth without it. We'd forgotten that we were gifted in ways unimaginable, created with a unique purpose like no other, that people are hurting, that we beat that same hurt and we can help them. There is no one as valuable as you. Unlearn that old lie. — Lee Goff

We love someone, so we care. That love can morph into feeling responsible for them, then into we're accountable, then into we're to blame for their self-inflicted pain; then it's our fault if they crash and burn; then the fear causes us to hold on even tighter. Walk this in reverse until you get back to, "we love, we care". Now, love with wisdom. Step one in placing someone's life into His hands. — Lee 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

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

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

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

[ ... ] we call could be used, not just when we're broken, but especially because we're broken. — Bob Goff

Nobody turns down an invitation to the white house, but I've seen plenty of people turn down an invitation to fully live. — 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

Politics is economics by other means, and war is politics by other means. — Stan Goff

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

People always tend to give the benefit of the doubt to allow people to explain the context [of their words]. — Keli Goff

The Frankenstein of Communism is the product of the Jewish mind, and was turned loose upon the world by the son of a Rabbi, Karl Marx, in the hopes of destroying Christian civilization - as well as others. The testimony given before the Senate of the United States which is take from the many pages of the Overman Report, reveals beyond a shadow of a doubt that Jewish bankers financed the Russian Revolution. — Kenneth Goff

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

Sometimes the strongest thing you will ever do will be to let go of someone. It will be painful, you will suffer guilt, and you will second-guess yourself, but for your own sanity and quality of life, there will come a time where you hand them to God, with your love, and trust Him to be who and what He is. May our Lord comfort you. — Lee Goff

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

I think we are all about to become rootless. It may be time. The soil has become poisonous. — Stan Goff

[ ... ] friendship creates a whole new economy. When people realize there's no agenda other than friendship and better understanding, it changes things. — Bob Goff

When you are massively outgunned, you do not fire and give away your position. — Stan Goff

Playing the sex object may not be dangerous for Miley Cyrus, with her bodyguards to protect her, but for a 13-year-old girl hanging out at a party at night, it can be. So I think it's fair to say to musicians: "Objectifying yourself is not the best choice." — Keli Goff

The fact that they viewed their wealth as a result of their own hands, without any honor other than lip service being given to the god that had blessed them, gave perfect openings to the liars slithering up their legs. — Lee 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

Remember that Caligula was not a cause, he was an effect. — Stan 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

Uniforms standardize the way we recognize military members who outrank us, so we can avoid ass chewings for failure to refer to someone as sergeant or sir or your majesty, or for failure to salute them. — Stan Goff

God isn't afraid of our doubts; He's way more concerned when we fake it. — Bob Goff

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

He was all about engagement. — Bob Goff

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

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

The words people say to us not only have shelf life but have the ability to shape life. — Bob Goff

Most of us have all the information we need. What we need is more passion. — Bob Goff

We were all meant to save many lives. God is always trying to save lives, and it seems like He usually uses the least likely people to do it. — 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

Fear calls out our doubts; God calls out our names. — Bob Goff

God's grace comes in all shapes, sizes, and circumstances as God continues to unfold something magnificent in me. — 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

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

Then the nickel must have dropped when he realized I had pranked him as he groaned under his breath, "Bob!"
Doug's been trying to get back at me for years. But he can't, because I'm a lawyer. You don't get into and through law school like I did without gaining a few street smarts. — Bob Goff

Democrat flaks jump on this like ducks on a June-bug, and in the process themselves reproduce the sick militarism of this culture that automatically valorizes anyone who wears a uniform. How dare you insult a soldier! Like its some sacred calling instead of an imperial employment program steeped in the culture of machismo and misogyny.(And you can gasp as theatrically as you want I spent more than two decades wearing a uniform that is exactly what it is.) — Stan Goff

Even scientists and academics are frequent prey to the delusion that reality is reducible. Fear, deep and wide, is the secret motive force of much human behavior, and I think reduction is often rooted in fear. Passing over fear, I think, is the beginning of every liberatory project. — Stan Goff

It's easy to confuse a lot of activity with a purposeful life. Do what lasts; let the rest fall away. — Bob Goff

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

Whether you're married or single, figure out what fuels your passions and what crushes your soul. Figure out what you're good at and what you're not so good at. Keep it simple. Do more of what you're good at and less of everything else. Because — Maria Goff

It seems that what God does most of the time when He has something to say is this ... He doesn't pass us messages, instead he passes us each other. — Bob Goff

God makes confetti out of our titles and accomplishments to celebrate the poor and the humble. — Bob Goff