Quotes from Bob Goff

...love is never stationary.

Love doesn't just keep thinking about it or keep planning for it... Simply put: Love does!

Simply put: love does.

Living a life fully engaged in full of whimsy and the kind of things that love does is something most people plan to do, but along the way they just kind of forget.

The way we treat people we disagree with most is a report card on what we've learned about love.

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

Great love leaves little doubt.

We're all amateurs when it comes to love. Don't be too hard on each other.

Jesus won't try to speak over the noise in our lives; love whispers so we won't be confused about who's doing the talking.

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.

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

Love doesn't try to be efficient; when it is most extravagant, it is least wasted.

Our opinions are what we'll be known for; our love is what we'll be remembered for

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

We spend a lot of energy remembering failures God spent a lot of love saying we could forget.

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.

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

I used to think I could learn about Jesus by studying Him, but now I know Jesus doesn't want stalkers.

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

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.

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.

I used to hope the things I did would work; now I hope they last.

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.

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.