Quotes from Bob Goff

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

Fear calls out our doubts; God calls out our names.

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.

We'll never honor Christ if we forget how to honor each other.

No book is a chapter, no chapter tells the whole story, no mistake defines who we are. Hope makes our lives page turners.

Cynicism is fear posing as confidence; joy is hope let off the leash.

The shallow end of hope is usually the deep end of grace.

Sometimes we ask God for help and God gives us hope, not because it's different, but because it's the same.

We're part of God's much bigger plan for the whole world. Just like God's Son arrived here, so did you. And after Jesus arrived, God whispered to all of humanity "It's your move.

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

What I've learned the more time I've spent following Jesus is that God delights in answering our impossible prayers.

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

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

Live a life of conspicuous grace and courageous resolve.

Words people say not only have a shelf life but have the ability to shape life.

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?

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

Living a life of following Christ means constant interruptions.

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

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

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

I don't think success is what we've made of ourselves; I think it's what we've made of others.