Top 207 Quotes & Sayings by Bob Goff

I live in constant anticipation of good stuff. It's not being 'Pollyanna' about things, but most stories don't have the ending we would give them right away. The better endings come later.

When the kids were growing up, we didn't have a television in the house connected to a cable or an antenna. If something bad happened in the world, I wanted the kids to hear about it from me.

I literally get one hundred calls a day. I can't get anything done, but I'm happy about it.

Jesus didn't hold people accountable; He just held them close - because it works better.

I'm trying to surround myself during my life with the eight people I'd surround my bed with on my death.

Instead of picking your career and backfilling your life behind that, what if you pick your life and backfill your career with whatever is left over?

On the morning of September 11, 2001, I rushed home before the kids left for school and gathered them around our dining room table and told them what had happened. Like everyone else, we struggled for words to describe to our kids why such a thing would occur.

I have the sense that whoever here on earth we couldn't get along with, Jesus will make us roommates in Heaven.

My worst subject in school was school, but it turns out I'm great at starting them.

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

Wouldn't you say that most of us are a reflection of or a reaction to the people who have been closest to us? I'm a reflection of my grandmother.

We'll become in our lives whoever the people we love the most say we are.

If a door is shut, go up and wiggle it a little - don't assume it's locked.

Love is never stationary.

I'm a lawyer; I win arguments for a living.

You know... life can be like a big game of Battleship. The enemy knows where your ships are and is trying to call the right number and sink them. But he can't sink you if you're with God.

If you wanna get a report card on your faith, see how you are dealing with people who are really difficult to deal with.

Secretly incredible people keep what they do as one of God's best-kept secrets because the only one who needs to know - the God of the universe - already knows.

The people that are my friends and are easy to get along with, they make me feel like I'm a boss at loving people.

Some of us have been told what we want our whole lives. We've been told we should want to go out for sports or not. We should want a college education or a graduate degree or a particular career. We should want to date this person and not the other.

I'm not trying to be efficient; I'm trying to be present.

God often waits until we're out of ideas before He lets us know His plans. He competes for our hearts, not our attention.

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

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

Stop doing what you're able to do and figure out what you were made to do - then do lots of that.

We don't really make friends, they make us.

Stand up like a mountain; have faith like a rock; love like an avalanche

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

The way we love people we disagree with is the best evidence of what we really believe.

I used to think that real love involved falling for someone; but now I think it usually involves standing for someone.

God never said He'd eliminate all of the chaos from our lives; He just said He'd bring meaning to it.

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

Being engaged is a way of doing life, a way of living and loving. It's about going to extremes and expressing the bright hope that life offers us, a hope that makes us brave and expels darkness with light. That's what I want my life to be all about - full of abandon, whimsy, and in love.

The world will figure out what we really believe, by watching what we actually do.

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

We won't be distracted by comparison if we're captivated with purpose.

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

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

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

The way we deal with uncertainty says a lot about whether Jesus is ahead of us leading, or behind us just carrying our stuff.

Don't save up love like you're trying to retire on it; give it away like you're made of it.

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

I used to think I could shape the circumstances around me, but now I know Jesus uses circumstances to shape me.

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

Love God. Love people. And do stuff. That's my punch list everyday.

I don't know every step I'm supposed to take. I think Jesus just wants me to take the next step.

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.

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

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

Every day God invites us on the same kind of adventure. It's not a trip where He sends us a rigid itinerary, He simply invites us. God asks what it is He's made us to love, what it is that captures our attention, what feeds that deep indescribable need of our souls to experience the richness of the world He made. And then, leaning over us, He whispers, "Let's go do that together.

Insecurity wants us to keep track of our failures; grace doesn't even write them down.

Figure out what fuels your joy, then do lots of that

Most people need love and acceptance a lot more than they need advice.

I used to be afraid of failing at something that really mattered to me, but now I'm more afraid of succeeding at things that don't matter.

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.

See people for who they're becoming. Not who they were.

God isn't trying to make our lives easier; He wants to make them more meaningful.

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

Courage isn't the absence of fear, it's just deciding that fear isn't calling the shots anymore

We can't always see people's pain; they can always feel our love.