Top 100 Goff Quotes
#1. Courage doesn't mean we're not afraid anymore, it just means our actions aren't controlled by our doubts.
Bob Goff
#2. God doesn't want failure to shut us down.
Bob Goff
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. So, are you in the tree for any particular reason or are you indulging a long-held desire to be a bird?
Mandy Goff
#6. I used to hope the things I did would work; now I hope they last.
Bob Goff
#7. The words we speak to each other should leave stretch marks, not bruises. Love is always picky about what it says.
Bob Goff
#8. When love is a theory, it's safe, it's free of risk. But love in the brain changes nothing.
Bob Goff
#9. 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
#10. Whimsy doesn't care if you are the driver or the passenger; all that matters is that you are on your way.
Bob Goff
#11. Love does whatever it takes to multiply itself and somehow along the way everyone becomes a part of it.
Bob Goff
#12. For me, it's Jesus plus nothing-...
Bob Goff
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. Jesus always pointed people towards a better version of themselves - particularly when they'd failed.
Bob Goff
#16. [ ... ] what God really wants for us is something much different, something more tailored to us.
Bob Goff
#17. 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
#18. I wouldn't have found who and what God had tailor-made for me.
Bob Goff
#19. We need to wash the feet of our enemies.
Bob Goff
#20. Love one another. We don't need more instructions; we need more examples.
Bob Goff
#21. Selfless love is always costly; fear can't afford it, pride doesn't understand it and friends never forget it.
Bob Goff
#22. 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
#23. Living a life of following Christ means constant interruptions.
Bob Goff
#24. We get to decide each time whether we will lean in toward what is unfolding and say yes or back away.
Bob Goff
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. We might be known for what we believed, but we're certain to be remembered for what we did about it.
Bob Goff
#29. We need to make our faith our very own love story.
Bob Goff
#30. If we only do what we're familiar with, we might miss what we've been made for.
Bob Goff
#31. People always tend to give the benefit of the doubt to allow people to explain the context [of their words].
Keli Goff
#32. The thing I love about God is He intentionally guides people into failure.
Bob Goff
#33. You can quit anything on a Thursday.
Bob Goff
#34. This time, I invited it in. I felt the darkness tame my impetuous nature, allowing me to feed slowly on the hatred and control it. The coldness flowed through my veins and to the lengths of each limb. The icy darkness pooled in my chest and chilled my heart.
Leigh Goff
#35. We plant sod where God wants 2 plant seed. He's more interested in growing our character than having us look finished.
Bob Goff
#36. 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
#37. God made beauty so we'd know how He felt about us.
Bob Goff
#38. [ ... ] 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
#39. Stop doing what you're able to do and figure out what you were made to do - then do lots of that.
Bob Goff
#40. We can be the light of the world without leaving our high beams on and annoying everybody.
Bob Goff
#41. Look at his toes. He, let's be frank, has two left feet.' 'Verily,' Chamberlain Le Goff confirmed without a trace of amazement. 'There are plenty of tapestries like that in Beauclair. The master who wove them was a true master. But he drank an awful lot. As artists do.
Andrzej Sapkowski
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. What distracts us will begin to define us. We don't need to swing at every pitch.
Bob Goff
#46. It's easy to confuse a lot of activity with a purposeful life. Do what lasts; let the rest fall away.
Bob Goff
#47. 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
#48. Live a life of conspicuous grace and courageous resolve.
Bob Goff
#49. Cynicism is fear posing as confidence; joy is hope let off the leash.
Bob Goff
#50. Too often we are posers. Don't be afraid. Be you. Live a life worthy of the calling YOU'VE received.
Bob Goff
#51. Do one heroic thing today; big or small doesn't matter because it defines who you are and what you really believe
Bob Goff
#52. I would add entertainment media cheerleader Wolf Blitzer, CNN's Pentagon sycophant in Kuwait City, a representative of the neon press, neon being that colorless, inert gas that lights up on command.
Stan Goff
#53. Remember that Caligula was not a cause, he was an effect.
Stan Goff
#54. They listened more than they talked, but that was the way of wise men and women.
Lee Goff
#55. Young professionals, I reminded myself, sympathetic as they may seem with a disarming modesty, are always necessarily invested in conservatism.
Stan Goff
#56. Live your life like you're exactly who Jesus thinks you are.
Bob Goff
#57. The fact that they viewed their wealth as a result of their own hands, without any honor other than lip service being given to the god that had blessed them, gave perfect openings to the liars slithering up their legs.
Lee Goff
#58. Things that go wrong can shape us or scar us.
Bob Goff
#59. 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
#60. Extravagant love is never wasted.
Bob Goff
#61. Jesus never told His friends to play it safe.
Bob Goff
#62. 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
#63. Whether you're married or single, figure out what fuels your passions and what crushes your soul. Figure out what you're good at and what you're not so good at. Keep it simple. Do more of what you're good at and less of everything else. Because
Maria Goff
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. The academic is sharing in the bourgeois' loot, in a hundred little ways. And the peasant understands necessity as something that transcends mortality. To be in community with that peasant, the Chapel Hill academic will have to commit class suicide.
Stan Goff
#68. 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
#69. Sometimes we ask God for help and God gives us hope, not because it's different, but because it's the same.
Bob Goff
#70. 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
#71. We won't figure out what's sacred in life if we settle for what's safe.
Bob Goff
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. Even scientists and academics are frequent prey to the delusion that reality is reducible. Fear, deep and wide, is the secret motive force of much human behavior, and I think reduction is often rooted in fear. Passing over fear, I think, is the beginning of every liberatory project.
Stan Goff
#75. [ ... ] friendship creates a whole new economy. When people realize there's no agenda other than friendship and better understanding, it changes things.
Bob Goff
#76. Here's our job as believers, love everybody ALWAYS!
Bob Goff
#77. Stupidity is a tough, fecund thing, like crabgrass.
Stan Goff
#78. It's always easier to pretend you know something than it is to learn about it. It's always easier to be cute than it is to be rigorous. It is easier to talk trash than it is to practice the humility of the serious student.
Stan Goff
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. The author also participated in Operation Uphold Democracy (in Haiti, a year after the catastrophic denouement of Operation Restore Hope in Somalia). ... Hope was not restored in Somalia. Democracy was not upheld in Haiti.
Stan Goff
#83. We don't really make friends, they make us.
Bob Goff
#84. Uniforms standardize the way we recognize military members who outrank us, so we can avoid ass chewings for failure to refer to someone as sergeant or sir or your majesty, or for failure to salute them.
Stan Goff
#85. 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
#86. Fix your eyes on Jesus; it's ok to stare.
Bob Goff
#87. I used to think I needed an invitation to get into most places, but now I know I'm already invited.
Bob Goff
#88. That's one of those things about love. It always assumes it can find a way to express itself.
Bob Goff
#89. 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
#90. Do one thing that's heroic for you today - big or small - and fear won't define you anymore.
Bob Goff
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. Don't let other people decide who you are.
Bob Goff
#94. Sometimes the things we think are the impediments are actually the path.
Bob Goff
#95. Grace means we can put the chalk away and stop keeping score!
Bob Goff
#96. It will be the people with the greatest love, not the most information, who will influence us to change.
Bob Goff
#97. 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
#98. No one leads people to Jesus; He leads people to Himself. All the pressure's off; just go love everybody without agenda.
Bob Goff
#99. I'm of the old-fashioned opinion that shame can be used for all sorts of good in society. An example of this is smoking: When someone lights up around a crowd, people now usually say something. So I don't understand why it's not OK to apply the same logic to other behaviors.
Keli Goff
#100. Dreams are like children. They want for attention if they are to flourish.
J.D. Goff
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