Top 100 Bob Goff Quotes
#1. Courage doesn't mean we're not afraid anymore, it just means our actions aren't controlled by our doubts.
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#2. 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.
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#3. I used to hope the things I did would work; now I hope they last.
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#4. 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.
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#5. Jesus always pointed people towards a better version of themselves - particularly when they'd failed.
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#6. [ ... ] what God really wants for us is something much different, something more tailored to us.
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#7. 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.
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#8. I wouldn't have found who and what God had tailor-made for me.
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#9. We get to decide each time whether we will lean in toward what is unfolding and say yes or back away.
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#10. 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?
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#11. 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.
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#12. I used to think you had to be special for God to use you, but now I know you simply need to say yes.
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#13. We need to make our faith our very own love story.
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#14. We plant sod where God wants 2 plant seed. He's more interested in growing our character than having us look finished.
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#15. Stop doing what you're able to do and figure out what you were made to do - then do lots of that.
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#16. 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.
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#17. 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.
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#18. What distracts us will begin to define us. We don't need to swing at every pitch.
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#19. It's easy to confuse a lot of activity with a purposeful life. Do what lasts; let the rest fall away.
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#20. Do one heroic thing today; big or small doesn't matter because it defines who you are and what you really believe
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#21. Live your life like you're exactly who Jesus thinks you are.
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#22. Jesus never told His friends to play it safe.
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#23. 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.
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#24. 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.
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#25. 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.
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#26. 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.
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#27. Small streams don't plan to be mighty rivers. We just move in a direction; God decides what He'll have us become.
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#28. 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.
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#29. [ ... ] friendship creates a whole new economy. When people realize there's no agenda other than friendship and better understanding, it changes things.
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#30. 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.
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#31. 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.
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#32. We don't really make friends, they make us.
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#33. 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.
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#34. I used to think I needed an invitation to get into most places, but now I know I'm already invited.
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#35. That's one of those things about love. It always assumes it can find a way to express itself.
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#36. The way we treat people we disagree with most is a report card on what we've learned about love.
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#37. Loving people the way Jesus did, means living a life of constant interruptions. Bring it.
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#38. Embrace uncertainty. Some of the most beautiful chapters in our lives won't have a title until much later.
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#39. The teachers I've learned the most from, didn't think they were teaching me; they just thought we were friends.
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#40. 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.
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#41. 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.
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#42. Love doesn't try to be efficient; when it is most extravagant, it is least wasted.
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#43. The way we love people we disagree with is the best evidence of what we really believe.
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#44. People who follow Jesus, though, are no longer typical - God is constantly inviting them into a life that moves away from typical.
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#45. We keep telling God our opinions; He keeps asking us about our hearts. We'll grow the most when we have the right conversations.
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#46. I used to think I could learn about Jesus by studying Him, but now I know Jesus doesn't want stalkers.
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#47. 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.
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#48. 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.
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#49. What I've learned the more time I've spent following Jesus is that God delights in answering our impossible prayers.
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#50. Go be the next humblest version of yourself.
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#51. 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.
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#52. The way we deal with uncertainty says a lot about whether Jesus is ahead of us leading, or behind us just carrying our stuff.
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#53. I used to think that real love involved falling for someone; but now I think it usually involves standing for someone.
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#54. So he chose to keep his stuff rather than follow Jesus.
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#55. 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.
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#56. They swapped the real thing for an image of the real thing.
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#57. People who want to manipulate you will fear your joy, because it's not easily controlled.
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#58. We all want to have a place where we can dream and escape anything that wraps steel bands around our imagination and creativity.
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#59. 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.
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#60. I used to think life could be shared with anyone,
but now I know choosing the right people is pretty important.
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#61. The world will figure out what we really believe, by watching what we actually do.
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#62. God keeps telling us to be not afraid, to go big
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#63. The people who slowly became typical have the greatest problem wrapping their minds around a dynamic friendship with an invisible, alive God.
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#64. Next to grace, I bet God thinks making us need each other was one of His best ideas.
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#65. Love has the kind of power criticism only wishes it had.
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#66. Love God, love your neighbors, and do stuff!
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#67. 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.
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#68. [ ... ] we call could be used, not just when we're broken, but especially because we're broken.
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#69. I want to live in a new normal where I can reach out to people who are different from me and just be friends.
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#70. 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.
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#71. Jesus lets us be real with our life and our faith.
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#72. The words people say to us not only have shelf life but have the ability to shape life.
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#73. Turn your mountains into molehills by discussing God more than your difficulties.
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#74. [ ... ] love is a do thing. It's an energy that has to be dissipated.
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#75. Fear will give us a reason not to try; hope will give us a reason not to listen.
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#76. He said we'd know the extent of out love for God by how well we loved people.
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#77. Courageous people feel the same fear everyone else does, they just decide to not be afraid anymore.
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#78. 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.
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#79. 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.
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#80. Stop telling people how far they have left to go. Instead tell them how far they've come.
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#81. Start from scratch with Jesus every day and then be picky about what you add to your life.
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#82. I don't know every step I'm supposed to take. I think Jesus just wants me to take the next step.
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#83. ...love is never stationary.
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#84. We determine how much influence we'll have, when we decide how available we'll be.
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#85. 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.
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#86. Our opinions are what we'll be known for; our love is what we'll be remembered for
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#87. 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.
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#88. Love finds us where we are, not where we were.
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#89. See people for who they're becoming. Not who they were.
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#90. We get to be God's plan for the whole world by pointing people toward Him.
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#91. 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.
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#92. He was all about engagement.
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#93. God's big plan: go love everybody, always!
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#94. We'll never honor Christ if we forget how to honor each other.
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#95. Surround yourself with prompts that remind you who Jesus is.
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#96. I used to think God wouldn't talk to me, but now I know I'm just selective with what I choose to hear.
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#97. [ ... ] the kind of love that God created and demonstrated is a costly one because it involves sacrifice and presence.
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#98. I don't think success is what we've made of ourselves; I think it's what we've made of others.
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#99. It will be more love, not more information, that will change our hearts.
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#100. When you trust someone, you don't need to know everything.
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