Don’t let other people decide who you are.
BOB GOFFDon’t let other people decide who you are.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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The way we treat people we disagree with most is a report card on what we’ve learned about love.
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God doesn’t break things so He can fix them; He fixes broken things so He can use them.
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When love is a theory, it’s safe, it’s free of risk. But love in the brain changes nothing.
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That’s one of those things about love. It always assumes it can find a way to express itself.
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Insecurity wants us to keep track of our failures; grace doesn’t even write them down.
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What I noticed, though, is almost every time I type the word love, it gets changed to the word live…
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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.
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Day turned to night, His friends scattered and death thought it had won. But heaven just started counting to three
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When you love people like Jesus, you get messy. But messy looks good on you!
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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.
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When you trust someone, you don’t need to know everything.
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Surround yourself with prompts that remind you who Jesus is.
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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.
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No book is a chapter, no chapter tells the whole story, no mistake defines who we are. Hope makes our lives page turners.
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Next to grace, I bet God thinks making us need each other was one of His best ideas.
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Don’t let not knowing how it’ll end keep you from beginning. Uncertainty chases us out into the open where God is waiting.
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We keep telling God our opinions; He keeps asking us about our hearts. We’ll grow the most when we have the right conversations.
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Stop telling people how far they have left to go. Instead tell them how far they’ve come.
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Words people say not only have a shelf life but have the ability to shape life.
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I don’t think anyone aims to be typical, really. Most people even vow to themselves some time in high school or college not to be typical. But still, they just kind of loop back to it somehow.
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You don’t want to pick a fight with just the guy at the deli, [you want to] pick a fight somewhere in the world and just run towards it. Run because the fight is going to go on without you if you miss it.
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We can be the light of the world without leaving our high beams on and annoying everybody.
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Love doesn’t try to be efficient; when it is most extravagant, it is least wasted.
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We won’t be distracted by comparison if we’re captivated with purpose.
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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.
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Courage doesn’t mean we’re not afraid anymore, it just means our actions aren’t controlled by our doubts.
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