The real game of Bigger and Better that Jesus is playing with us usually isn’t about money or possessions or even our hopes. It’s about our pride.
BOB GOFFDay turned to night, His friends scattered and death thought it had won. But heaven just started counting to three
More Bob Goff Quotes
-
-
We all want to have a place where we can dream and escape anything that wraps steel bands around our imagination and creativity.
BOB GOFF -
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.
BOB GOFF -
God makes confetti out of our titles and accomplishments to celebrate the poor and the humble.
BOB GOFF -
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.
BOB GOFF -
Jesus never told His friends to play it safe.
BOB GOFF -
We get to be God’s plan for the whole world by pointing people toward Him.
BOB GOFF -
I’m all for getting together with men and women in small groups around Scripture and letting it just wash over us, but for me, I’ve been meeting with the same ten guys for like 15 years now, but we don’t have a Bible study every Friday, we have a Bible doing.
BOB GOFF -
People who want to manipulate you will fear your joy, because it’s not easily controlled.
BOB GOFF -
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.
BOB GOFF -
I used to think life could be shared with anyone, but now I know choosing the right people is pretty important.
BOB GOFF -
Sometimes we ask God for help and God gives us hope, not because it’s different, but because it’s the same.
BOB GOFF -
What Jesus said we could do is leave typical behind.
BOB GOFF -
I don’t know every step I’m supposed to take. I think Jesus just wants me to take the next step.
BOB GOFF -
No book is a chapter, no chapter tells the whole story, no mistake defines who we are. Hope makes our lives page turners.
BOB GOFF -
Here’s our job as believers, love everybody ALWAYS!
BOB GOFF -
I used to want to fix people, but now I just want to be with them.
BOB GOFF -
Live your life like you’re exactly who Jesus thinks you are.
BOB GOFF -
Do what lasts, get around to everything else.
BOB GOFF -
When it feels like we need to choose between being right and being humble- pick both
BOB GOFF -
Insecurity wants us to keep track of our failures; grace doesn’t even write them down.
BOB GOFF -
What I noticed, though, is almost every time I type the word love, it gets changed to the word live…
BOB GOFF -
We plant sod where God wants 2 plant seed. He’s more interested in growing our character than having us look finished.
BOB GOFF -
I know that sounds so circular, but for you, what you were made to do, is different than what I was made to do.
BOB GOFF -
One thing I do is (and I realize this might sound nuts), every month or so, I try to take like an Etch-a-sketch [so to speak], and I clear my faith. I go to zero, clear the deck. And I start adding things back to my faith, one at a time.
BOB GOFF -
Fear will give us a reason not to try; hope will give us a reason not to listen.
BOB GOFF -
The shallow end of hope is usually the deep end of grace.
BOB GOFF