Bob Goff Quotes - Page 7

I used to think JESUS motivated us with ultimatums, but now I know He pursues us in LOVE.

We plant sod where God wants 2 plant seed. He's more interested in growing our character than having us look finished.

Next to grace, I bet God thinks making us need each other was one of His best ideas.

If we pick recognition over influence we'll be known for all the wrong stuff.

Most of us have all the information we need. What we need is more passion.

I learned that faith isn’t about knowing all of the right stuff or obeying a list of rules. It’s something more, something more costly because it involves being present and making a sacrifice.

I used to think life could be shared with anyone, but now I know choosing the right people is pretty important.

We get to be God's plan for the whole world by pointing people toward Him.

I think of the church as this bride of Christ, who is incredibly capable of doing amazing things. And so where we see injustice, we come, not with fists clenched but with palms up.

When you identify with an organization and you want to do stuff [but] you get this inexplicable 'no' - a lot of people get off the end and think, Well, God must have said no to me. No! The organization just said no to you. Find what it is that you were made to do and get on it! Go do what you were made to do.

You can quit anything on a Thursday.

Great love leaves little doubt.

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

When you are in high school, you don't give much thought to what you can't do. For most people, that gets learned later, and for still fewer, gets unlearned for the rest of life.

We all want to have a place where we can dream and escape anything that wraps steel bands around our imagination and creativity.

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

Jesus is nuts about kids. He doesn't seem to think much of lawyers which really lands close to home, but He's nuts about kids and loves justice.

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

What Jesus said we could do is leave typical behind.

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

...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.

God makes confetti out of our titles and accomplishments to celebrate the poor and the humble.

Does the church have all kinds of problems? You bet, because it's made up of people like me, so I get that part too. But all I need to know about the church is that Jesus picked her.

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

There's a difference between a caper and a prank. A prank is like playing Ding-Dong-Ditch, you know, you ring the doorbell and then run and hide in the ditch. That's a prank. It has no shelf life, like reassembling the principal's car up on the roof of the gym. It's cute and everything but there's no shelf-life, and it can actually be kind of destructive. But a caper is different. It's something where everybody has made it in.