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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
Courage doesn't mean we're not afraid anymore, it just means our actions aren't controlled by our doubts. -- 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
Don't let who you were talk you out of who you are becoming. -- 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
The way we treat people we disagree with most is a report card on what we've learned about love. -- Bob Goff
Most people need love and acceptance a lot more than they need advice. -- Bob Goff
Think the thoughts you would think if you wholeheartedly trusted God's promises. -- Bob Goff
We get to be God's plan for the whole world by pointing people toward Him. -- 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
[ ... ] the kind of love that God created and demonstrated is a costly one because it involves sacrifice and presence. -- Bob Goff
We need to make our faith our very own love story. -- Bob Goff
God doesn't want failure to shut us down. -- 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
Love finds us where we are, not where we were. -- Bob Goff
We spend a lot of energy remembering failures God spent a lot of love saying we could forget. -- Bob Goff
We determine how much influence we'll have, when we decide how available we'll be. -- 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
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
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
Cynicism is fear posing as confidence; joy is hope let off the leash. -- Bob Goff
What Jesus said we could do is leave typical behind. -- Bob Goff
Small streams don't plan to be mighty rivers. We just move in a direction; God decides what He'll have us become. -- Bob Goff
Finding things and losing things is what the Bible is all about. God even seemed to encourage it. He talked about losing your job, or even your life, if you want to find it. He talked about losing your status to find real power. -- Bob Goff
I used to think life could be shared with anyone,
but now I know choosing the right people is pretty important. -- Bob Goff
The thing I love about God is He intentionally guides people into failure. -- 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
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
Sometimes we ask God for help and God gives us hope, not because it's different, but because it's the same. -- Bob Goff
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. -- 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
Day turned to night, His friends scattered and death thought it had won. But heaven just started counting to three -- Bob Goff
Every time we see people as ordinary, we turn the wine back into water. -- Bob Goff
I don't know every step I'm supposed to take. I think Jesus just wants me to take the next step. -- Bob Goff
Selfless love is always costly; fear can't afford it, pride doesn't understand it and friends never forget it. -- Bob Goff
[ ... ] what God really wants for us is something much different, something more tailored to us. -- Bob Goff
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. -- Bob Goff
When love is a theory, it's safe, it's free of risk. But love in the brain changes nothing. -- 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
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
We'll fill our lives with what we cultivate the most. Plant grace by the acre. -- Bob Goff
Jesus always pointed people towards a better version of themselves - particularly when they'd failed. -- Bob Goff
Do what lasts, get around to everything else. -- Bob Goff
I used to think I could shape the circumstances around me, but now I know Jesus uses circumstances to shape me. -- 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
Love one another. We don't need more instructions; we need more examples. -- 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
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
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
Don't let uncertainty talk you into pursuing a backup plan instead of your purpose. -- Bob Goff
God keeps telling us to be not afraid, to go big -- Bob Goff
When you love people like Jesus, you get messy. But messy looks good on you! -- Bob Goff
Too often we are posers. Don't be afraid. Be you. Live a life worthy of the calling YOU'VE received. -- 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
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. -- Bob Goff
Jesus never told His friends to play it safe. -- Bob Goff
Loving people the way Jesus did, means living a life of constant interruptions. Bring it. -- 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
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
It will be more love, not more information, that will change our hearts. -- Bob Goff
It's in my nature, maybe all of our natures, to try to engineer things. So I skew the answers to get what I think I want. -- Bob Goff
Don't let not knowing how it'll end keep you from beginning. Uncertainty chases us out into the open where God is waiting. -- Bob Goff
Courageous people feel the same fear everyone else does, they just decide to not be afraid anymore. -- 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
God searches for us, no matter what dark place we're in or what door we're behind. He hears our impossible, audacious prayers for ourselves and others. And He delights in forgiving us and then answering those prayers by letting us return home to Him. -- 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 can't always see people's pain; they can always feel our love. -- Bob Goff
Love doesn't try to be efficient; when it is most extravagant, it is least wasted. -- Bob Goff
We won't be distracted by comparison if we're captivated with purpose. -- Bob Goff
[ ... ] most [Christians] I had met up until that time were kind of wimpy and seemed to have more opinions about what or who they were against than who they were for. -- Bob Goff
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
what if we were just to do awesome, incredible stuff together while we're here on earth and the fact that only He knew would be enough? -- Bob 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
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
We plant sod where God wants 2 plant seed. He's more interested in growing our character than having us look finished. -- Bob Goff
People who follow Jesus, though, are no longer typical - God is constantly inviting them into a life that moves away from typical. -- 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
Simply put: love does. -- Bob Goff
Do one thing that's heroic for you today - big or small - and fear won't define you anymore. -- Bob Goff
We won't figure out what's sacred in life if we settle for what's safe. -- Bob Goff
God makes confetti out of our titles and accomplishments to celebrate the poor and the humble. -- 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
No, no ... that's not why I came," Ryan stammered. "What I wanted to say -- 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
Stand up like a mountain; have faith like a rock; love like an avalanche -- Bob Goff
He saw the need and he did something about it. He didn't just say he was for me or with me. He was actually present with me. -- Bob Goff
The world will figure out what we really believe, by watching what we actually do. -- Bob Goff
...love is never stationary. -- 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
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
They swapped the real thing for an image of the real thing. -- 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
Do one heroic thing today; big or small doesn't matter because it defines who you are and what you really believe -- Bob Goff
You can quit anything on a Thursday. -- Bob Goff
I used to think religion tasted horrible,
but now I know I was just eating the fake stuff. -- 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
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
Great love leaves little doubt. -- Bob Goff
Words can launch us. We don't need to be a dean to say words that change everything for someone. Instead, God made it so that ordinary people like you and me can launch each other. -- 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
Start from scratch with Jesus every day and then be picky about what you add to your life. -- 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
Most of us have all the information we need. What we need is more passion. -- Bob Goff
Sometimes the things we think are the impediments are actually the path. -- Bob Goff
Obstacles that seems insurmountable aren't. Impediments that we believe disqualify us don't. -- 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
Extravagant love is never wasted. -- Bob Goff
You don't need a plan; you just need to be present. -- Bob Goff
Things that go wrong can shape us or scar us. -- Bob Goff
There's a lot to be concerned about; there's more to be hopeful for. -- 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
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
He said we'd know the extent of out love for God by how well we loved people. -- Bob Goff
You know what it is about someone that makes them a friend? A friend doesn't just say things; a friend 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
Love does whatever it takes to multiply itself and somehow along the way everyone becomes a part of it. -- 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
We need to wash the feet of our enemies. -- Bob 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
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
We'll never honor Christ if we forget how to honor each other. -- Bob Goff
God can use anyone, for sure. If you can shred on a Fender or won "Best Personality," you're not disqualified-it just doesn't make you more qualified. -- Bob Goff
If you can shred on a Fender or won 'Best Personality,' you're not disqualified - it just doesn't make you more qualified. You see, God usually chooses ordinary people like us to get things done. -- Bob Goff
Living a life of following Christ means constant interruptions. -- Bob Goff
I wouldn't have found who and what God had tailor-made for me. -- 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
Grace draws a circle around everyone and says they're in. -- Bob Goff
People who want to manipulate you will fear your joy, because it's not easily controlled. -- Bob Goff
Jesus didn't say He would ice over the grit of faults and failures either; He said He would use us in spite of the grit and faults and failures. -- 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
Grace means we can put the chalk away and stop keeping score! -- 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
I used to think I could learn about Jesus by studying Him, but now I know Jesus doesn't want stalkers. -- Bob Goff
It's easy to confuse a lot of activity with a purposeful life. Do what lasts; let the rest fall away. -- Bob Goff
God's grace comes in all shapes, sizes, and circumstances as God continues to unfold something magnificent in me. -- Bob Goff
I used to want to fix people, but now I just want to be with them. -- Bob Goff
I used to think JESUS motivated us with ultimatums, but now I know He pursues us in LOVE. -- Bob Goff
For me, it's Jesus plus nothing-... -- Bob Goff
Figure out what fuels your joy, then do lots of that -- Bob Goff
Fear will give us a reason not to try; hope will give us a reason not to listen. -- 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
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
[ ... ] I believed words still had power when they are said by the right people. -- Bob Goff
Stop doing what you're able to do and figure out what you were made to do - then do lots of that. -- Bob Goff
Turn your mountains into molehills by discussing God more than your difficulties. -- Bob Goff
We won't be like Jesus if it's more important to us to be like each other. God doesn't compare what he creates. -- Bob Goff
God isn't trying to make our lives easier; He wants to make them more meaningful. -- Bob Goff
Embrace uncertainty. Some of the most beautiful chapters in our lives won't have a title until much later. -- Bob Goff
God finds us in the holes we dig for ourselves. We see failures; He sees foundations. -- 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
God doesn't break things so He can fix them; He fixes broken things so He can use them. -- Bob Goff
God's big plan: go love everybody, always! -- Bob Goff
What I've learned the more time I've spent following Jesus is that God delights in answering our impossible prayers. -- Bob Goff
Live your life like you're exactly who Jesus thinks you are. -- Bob Goff
Surround yourself with prompts that remind you who Jesus is. -- Bob Goff
Live a life of conspicuous grace and courageous resolve. -- Bob Goff
It will be the people with the greatest love, not the most information, who will influence us to change. -- Bob Goff
Be ambitious about things that last. -- Bob Goff
Here's our job as believers, love everybody ALWAYS! -- Bob Goff
That's one of those things about love. It always assumes it can find a way to express itself. -- Bob Goff
Don't let other people decide who you are. -- Bob Goff
No book is a chapter, no chapter tells the whole story, no mistake defines who we are. Hope makes our lives page turners. -- Bob Goff
There are lots of things we're able to do, but I'd like to land on the one thing I was MADE to do. -- Bob Goff
Fix your eyes on Jesus; it's ok to stare. -- Bob Goff
We don't really make friends, they make us. -- 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
I used to hope the things I did would work; now I hope they last. -- Bob Goff
What distracts us will begin to define us. We don't need to swing at every pitch. -- Bob Goff
We can be the light of the world without leaving our high beams on and annoying everybody. -- Bob Goff
God made beauty so we'd know how He felt about us. -- Bob Goff
If we only do what we're familiar with, we might miss what we've been made for. -- 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
If we pick recognition over influence we'll be known for all the wrong stuff. -- Bob Goff
[ ... ] we call could be used, not just when we're broken, but especially because we're broken. -- 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
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
When it feels like we need to choose between being right and being humble- pick both -- Bob Goff
[ ... ] love is a do thing. It's an energy that has to be dissipated. -- Bob Goff
The most beautiful scenery in the world is when our friends come into view. -- Bob Goff
Fear calls out our doubts; God calls out our names. -- Bob Goff
If you're following God and haven't lost much of what you've been holding on to - follow a little closer. -- Bob Goff
The way we deal with uncertainty says a lot about whether Jesus is ahead of us leading, or behind us just carrying our stuff. -- Bob Goff
I think God pays attention to our hearts and enjoys when people want to get close to Him. He knows our sadness and the brokenness we want to hide from Him, and He sends people to look for us. -- 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
See people for who they're becoming. Not who they were. -- Bob Goff
Love God, love your neighbors, and do stuff! -- Bob Goff
Our opinions are what we'll be known for; our love is what we'll be remembered for -- Bob Goff
Whatever you're aiming for, God's better. -- Bob Goff
That's one of the things about love. It doesn't recognize boundaries and never obeys the rules we try to give it. -- 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
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
God's never as nervous about our future, or as concerned about our past, as we are. -- Bob Goff
Next to grace, I bet God thinks making us need each other was one of His best ideas. -- Bob Goff
Grace means we don't need to airbrush our lives to make them look like they're working. -- Bob Goff
Stop telling people how far they have left to go. Instead tell them how far they've come. -- Bob Goff
The way we love people we disagree with is the best evidence of what we really believe. -- 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
Go be the next humblest version of yourself. -- Bob Goff
I don't think success is what we've made of ourselves; I think it's what we've made of others. -- Bob Goff
The shallow end of hope is usually the deep end of grace. -- Bob Goff
The words people say to us not only have shelf life but have the ability to shape life. -- Bob Goff
God isn't afraid of our doubts; He's way more concerned when we fake it. -- Bob Goff
When you trust someone, you don't need to know everything. -- 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
Insecurity wants us to keep track of our failures;
grace doesn't even write them down. -- 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
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
Jesus lets us be real with our life and our faith. -- Bob Goff
God often waits until we're out of ideas before He lets us know His plans. He competes for our hearts, not our attention. -- Bob Goff
Love has the kind of power criticism only wishes it had. -- Bob Goff
Our failures can leave behind pavement or potholes. Our ability to receive grace determines which it will be. -- Bob Goff
We'll become whoever we trust the most says we are. -- Bob Goff
He was all about engagement. -- 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
I wasn't a project; I was his friend. -- Bob Goff
We need to stop plotting the course and instead just land the plane on our plans to make a difference by getting to the "do" part of faith. -- Bob Goff
So he chose to keep his stuff rather than follow Jesus. -- 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
The battle for our hearts is fought on the pages of our calendar. -- Bob Goff
We keep asking for answers; God keeps sending us people. -- Bob Goff