Bob Goff Quotes - Page 3

People who want to manipulate you will fear your joy, because it's not easily controlled.

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.

God pursues us into whatever dark place we've landed and behind whatever locked door holds us in. He holds our unwashed and dirty hands and models how He wants us to pursue each other And He 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.

What I noticed, though, is almost every time I type the word love, it gets changed to the word live… I learned that fully loving and fully living are not only synonymous but the kind of life that Jesus invited us to be part of.

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.

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

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.

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

I've learned that God sometimes allows us to find ourselves in a place where we want something so bad that we can't see past it. Sometimes we can't even see God because of it. 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.

We determine how much influence we'll have, when we decide how available we'll be.

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.

The most beautiful scenery in the world is when our friends come into view.

I used to think you had to be special for God to use you, but now I know you simply need to say yes.

Courageous people feel the same fear everyone else does, they just decide to not be afraid anymore.

Grace means we don't need to airbrush our lives to make them look like they're working.

It will be more love, not more information, that will change our hearts.

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

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

We won't figure out what's sacred in life if we settle for what's safe.

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.

I used to think God wouldn’t talk to me, but now I know I’m just selective with what I choose to hear.

We'll fill our lives with what we cultivate the most. Plant grace by the acre.

Every time we see people as ordinary, we turn the wine back into water.

Fear will give us a reason not to try; hope will give us a reason not to listen.

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