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

Goff Quotes #5091
#2. God doesn't want failure to shut us down.

Bob Goff

Goff Quotes #10184
#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

Goff Quotes #15306
#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

Goff Quotes #18626
#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

Goff Quotes #23316
#6. I used to hope the things I did would work; now I hope they last.

Bob Goff

Goff Quotes #34920
#7. The words we speak to each other should leave stretch marks, not bruises. Love is always picky about what it says.

Bob Goff

Goff Quotes #43174
#8. When love is a theory, it's safe, it's free of risk. But love in the brain changes nothing.

Bob Goff

Goff Quotes #43344
#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

Goff Quotes #70310
#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

Goff Quotes #73613
#11. Love does whatever it takes to multiply itself and somehow along the way everyone becomes a part of it.

Bob Goff

Goff Quotes #73723
#12. For me, it's Jesus plus nothing-...

Bob Goff

Goff Quotes #95972
#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

Goff Quotes #119040
#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

Goff Quotes #119962
#15. Jesus always pointed people towards a better version of themselves - particularly when they'd failed.

Bob Goff

Goff Quotes #124833
#16. [ ... ] what God really wants for us is something much different, something more tailored to us.

Bob Goff

Goff Quotes #131961
#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

Goff Quotes #133276
#18. I wouldn't have found who and what God had tailor-made for me.

Bob Goff

Goff Quotes #159642
#19. We need to wash the feet of our enemies.

Bob Goff

Goff Quotes #172265
#20. Love one another. We don't need more instructions; we need more examples.

Bob Goff

Goff Quotes #189131
#21. Selfless love is always costly; fear can't afford it, pride doesn't understand it and friends never forget it.

Bob Goff

Goff Quotes #189214
#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

Goff Quotes #189861
#23. Living a life of following Christ means constant interruptions.

Bob Goff

Goff Quotes #198754
#24. We get to decide each time whether we will lean in toward what is unfolding and say yes or back away.

Bob Goff

Goff Quotes #198916
#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

Goff Quotes #204687
#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

Goff Quotes #215862
#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

Goff Quotes #221475
#28. We might be known for what we believed, but we're certain to be remembered for what we did about it.

Bob Goff

Goff Quotes #239867
#29. We need to make our faith our very own love story.

Bob Goff

Goff Quotes #245263
#30. If we only do what we're familiar with, we might miss what we've been made for.

Bob Goff

Goff Quotes #248826
#31. People always tend to give the benefit of the doubt to allow people to explain the context [of their words].

Keli Goff

Goff Quotes #253608
#32. The thing I love about God is He intentionally guides people into failure.

Bob Goff

Goff Quotes #265199
#33. You can quit anything on a Thursday.

Bob Goff

Goff Quotes #274577
#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

Goff Quotes #274951
#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

Goff Quotes #288918
#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

Goff Quotes #289996
#37. God made beauty so we'd know how He felt about us.

Bob Goff

Goff Quotes #293177
#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

Goff Quotes #296282
#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

Goff Quotes #310381
#40. We can be the light of the world without leaving our high beams on and annoying everybody.

Bob Goff

Goff Quotes #313858
#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

Goff Quotes #321009
#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

Goff Quotes #327678
#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

Goff Quotes #328600
#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

Goff Quotes #329527
#45. What distracts us will begin to define us. We don't need to swing at every pitch.

Bob Goff

Goff Quotes #331188
#46. It's easy to confuse a lot of activity with a purposeful life. Do what lasts; let the rest fall away.

Bob Goff

Goff Quotes #332223
#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

Goff Quotes #337771
#48. Live a life of conspicuous grace and courageous resolve.

Bob Goff

Goff Quotes #338129
#49. Cynicism is fear posing as confidence; joy is hope let off the leash.

Bob Goff

Goff Quotes #342558
#50. Too often we are posers. Don't be afraid. Be you. Live a life worthy of the calling YOU'VE received.

Bob Goff

Goff Quotes #343026
#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

Goff Quotes #351394
#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

Goff Quotes #352460
#53. Remember that Caligula was not a cause, he was an effect.

Stan Goff

Goff Quotes #355050
#54. They listened more than they talked, but that was the way of wise men and women.

Lee Goff

Goff Quotes #357388
#55. Young professionals, I reminded myself, sympathetic as they may seem with a disarming modesty, are always necessarily invested in conservatism.

Stan Goff

Goff Quotes #363466
#56. Live your life like you're exactly who Jesus thinks you are.

Bob Goff

Goff Quotes #373054
#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

Goff Quotes #373664
#58. Things that go wrong can shape us or scar us.

Bob Goff

Goff Quotes #374991
#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

Goff Quotes #380572
#60. Extravagant love is never wasted.

Bob Goff

Goff Quotes #389352
#61. Jesus never told His friends to play it safe.

Bob Goff

Goff Quotes #397032
#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

Goff Quotes #402742
#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

Goff Quotes #409576
#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

Goff Quotes #414306
#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

Goff Quotes #418832
#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

Goff Quotes #440859
#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

Goff Quotes #448879
#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

Goff Quotes #459831
#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

Goff Quotes #470791
#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

Goff Quotes #478866
#71. We won't figure out what's sacred in life if we settle for what's safe.

Bob Goff

Goff Quotes #481977
#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

Goff Quotes #493609
#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

Goff Quotes #493910
#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

Goff Quotes #494597
#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

Goff Quotes #505179
#76. Here's our job as believers, love everybody ALWAYS!

Bob Goff

Goff Quotes #507797
#77. Stupidity is a tough, fecund thing, like crabgrass.

Stan Goff

Goff Quotes #536899
#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

Goff Quotes #540288
#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

Goff Quotes #542242
#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

Goff Quotes #545404
#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

Goff Quotes #557056
#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

Goff Quotes #560790
#83. We don't really make friends, they make us.

Bob Goff

Goff Quotes #566639
#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

Goff Quotes #572751
#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

Goff Quotes #596063
#86. Fix your eyes on Jesus; it's ok to stare.

Bob Goff

Goff Quotes #634971
#87. I used to think I needed an invitation to get into most places, but now I know I'm already invited.

Bob Goff

Goff Quotes #656028
#88. That's one of those things about love. It always assumes it can find a way to express itself.

Bob Goff

Goff Quotes #659546
#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

Goff Quotes #673029
#90. Do one thing that's heroic for you today - big or small - and fear won't define you anymore.

Bob Goff

Goff Quotes #685671
#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

Goff Quotes #686802
#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

Goff Quotes #697696
#93. Don't let other people decide who you are.

Bob Goff

Goff Quotes #702726
#94. Sometimes the things we think are the impediments are actually the path.

Bob Goff

Goff Quotes #704863
#95. Grace means we can put the chalk away and stop keeping score!

Bob Goff

Goff Quotes #706377
#96. It will be the people with the greatest love, not the most information, who will influence us to change.

Bob Goff

Goff Quotes #710753
#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

Goff Quotes #718409
#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

Goff Quotes #725426
#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

Goff Quotes #738359
#100. Dreams are like children. They want for attention if they are to flourish.

J.D. Goff

Goff Quotes #753560

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