Bob Goff Quotes

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

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

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

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

Do less of what you're terrible at and more of what you're good at. I don't know if that sounds too simple, but it's been working for me.

We don't really make friends, they make us.

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

Start from scratch with Jesus every day and then be picky about what you add to your life.

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

Fear calls out our doubts; God calls out our names.

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

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.

When it feels like we need to choose between being right and being humble- pick both

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

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.

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.

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

Thinking about work as a day job has made a big difference in the way I approach what I do. It also helped me not to confuse who I am with what I do.