Best 122 quotes of Bob Goff on MyQuotes

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.

Courage isn't the absence of fear, it's just deciding that fear isn't calling the shots anymore

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

Does the church have all kinds of problems? You bet, because it's made up of people like me, so I get that part too. But all I need to know about the church is that Jesus picked her.

Don't let other people decide who you are.

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

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

Do one thing that's heroic for you today - big or small - and fear won't define you anymore.

Extravagant love is never wasted.

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.

Fix your eyes on Jesus; it's ok to stare.

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

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

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

God often waits until we're out of ideas before He lets us know His plans. He competes for our hearts, not our attention.

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.

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

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

Grace draws a circle around everyone and says they're in.

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

Grace means we don't need to airbrush our lives to make them look like they're working.

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.

Great love leaves little doubt.

I don't know every step I'm supposed to take. I think Jesus just wants me to take the next step.

I don't think anyone aims to be typical, really. Most people even vow to themselves some time in high school or college not to be typical. But still, they just kind of loop back to it somehow. Like the circular rails of a train at an amusement park, the scripts we know offer a brand of security, of predictability, of safety for us. But the problem is, they only take us where we've already been. They loop us back to places where everyone can easily go, not necessarily where we were made to go. Living a different kind of life takes some guts and grit and a new way of seeing things.

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

If we pick recognition over influence we'll be known for all the wrong stuff.

If you get a no from somebody, don't say, 'I'm going to take this as some big cosmic signal.' No, you just got a no, deal with it. Just go to the next step.

If you’re following God and haven’t lost much of what you’ve been holding on to - follow a little closer.

I know that sounds so circular, but for you, what you were made to do, is different than what I was made to do. But instead of spending all of our time having Bible studies about what we were made to do, go do stuff and you'll figure out what you were made to do, because you'll be great at some things and you'll be terrible at others.

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 involves being present and making a sacrifice.

I'm all for getting together with men and women in small groups around Scripture and letting it just wash over us, but for me, I've been meeting with the same ten guys for like 15 years now, but we don't have a Bible study every Friday, we have a Bible doing.

I never know what all of the steps are but I do know the next step.

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

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.

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.

I think of the church as this bride of Christ, who is incredibly capable of doing amazing things. And so where we see injustice, we come, not with fists clenched but with palms up.

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

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.

I used to think God guided us by opening and closing doors, but now I know sometimes God wants us to kick some doors down.

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

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

I used to think I could shape the circumstances around me, but now I know Jesus uses circumstances to shape me.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Jesus is nuts about kids. He doesn't seem to think much of lawyers which really lands close to home, but He's nuts about kids and loves justice.

Jesus lets us be real with our life and our faith.