Bob Goff Quotes

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

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#3. Most of our decisions are driven by either love or fear. Figure out who's doing the talking, then decide what you'll do.

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#4. 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.

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

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

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#8. 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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#9. We don't really make friends, they make us.

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#10. 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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#11. Love like there's no tomorrow; live like there's no yesterday. We're forgiven; now go love people like we believe it

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#12. 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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#13. Here's our job as believers, love everybody ALWAYS!

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#14. [ ... ] 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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#15. 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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#16. 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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#17. We won't figure out what's sacred in life if we settle for what's safe.

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

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#20. 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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#21. 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.

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#22. 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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#23. 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.

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#24. 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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#25. Jesus never told His friends to play it safe.

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#26. Extravagant love is never wasted.

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#27. There's a lot to be concerned about; there's more to be hopeful for.

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

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

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#30. 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.

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

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#32. 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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#33. 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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#34. Nobody turns down an invitation to the white house, but I've seen plenty of people turn down an invitation to fully live.

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#35. Be ambitious about things that last.

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

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#37. Embrace uncertainty. Some of the most beautiful chapters in our lives won't have a title until much later.

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

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

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#40. 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.

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#41. 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.

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#42. God finds us in the holes we dig for ourselves. We see failures; He sees foundations.

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#43. I used to want to fix people, but now I just want to be with them.

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#44. The way we treat people we disagree with most is a report card on what we've learned about love.

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#45. No one leads people to Jesus; He leads people to Himself. All the pressure's off; just go love everybody without agenda.

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#46. 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.

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#47. It will be the people with the greatest love, not the most information, who will influence us to change.

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

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#49. Sometimes the things we think are the impediments are actually the path.

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#50. Don't let other people decide who you are.

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#51. No book is a chapter, no chapter tells the whole story, no mistake defines who we are. Hope makes our lives page turners.

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#52. I want to be doing things today, not just flipping through crinkled and yellowed mental pictures of what happened a long time ago.

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#53. 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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#54. 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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#55. Living a life of following Christ means constant interruptions.

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#56. 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.

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#57. Selfless love is always costly; fear can't afford it, pride doesn't understand it and friends never forget it.

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#58. Love one another. We don't need more instructions; we need more examples.

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#59. We need to wash the feet of our enemies.

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#60. I wouldn't have found who and what God had tailor-made for me.

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#61. 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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#62. [ ... ] what God really wants for us is something much different, something more tailored to us.

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#63. Jesus always pointed people towards a better version of themselves - particularly when they'd failed.

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#64. 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.

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#65. 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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#66. For me, it's Jesus plus nothing-...

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#67. Love does whatever it takes to multiply itself and somehow along the way everyone becomes a part of it.

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#68. Whimsy doesn't care if you are the driver or the passenger; all that matters is that you are on your way.

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

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#71. The words we speak to each other should leave stretch marks, not bruises. Love is always picky about what it says.

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#72. I used to hope the things I did would work; now I hope they last.

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#73. Don't let not knowing how it'll end keep you from beginning. Uncertainty chases us out into the open where God is waiting.

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#74. 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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#75. God doesn't want failure to shut us down.

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#76. Courage doesn't mean we're not afraid anymore, it just means our actions aren't controlled by our doubts.

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#77. We can be the light of the world without leaving our high beams on and annoying everybody.

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

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#79. 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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#80. Too often we are posers. Don't be afraid. Be you. Live a life worthy of the calling YOU'VE received.

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#81. Cynicism is fear posing as confidence; joy is hope let off the leash.

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#82. Live a life of conspicuous grace and courageous resolve.

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#83. 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.

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#84. 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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#85. What distracts us will begin to define us. We don't need to swing at every pitch.

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#86. 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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#87. 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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#88. 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.

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#89. Things that go wrong can shape us or scar us.

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#90. 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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#91. [ ... ] 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.

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#92. God made beauty so we'd know how He felt about us.

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#93. 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.

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#94. 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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#95. You can quit anything on a Thursday.

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#96. The thing I love about God is He intentionally guides people into failure.

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

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#98. We need to make our faith our very own love story.

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

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#100. 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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