Bob Goff is the author of the New York Times best-selling book Love Does. Goff as well as an attorney who founded Love Does, a nonprofit human rights organization operating in Uganda, India, Nepal, Iraq and Somalia. Because of his vision and the work of Love Does, he serves as the Hon. Inspirational Bob Goff quotes will change the way you live and transform your whole life.
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Most Famous Bob Goff Quotes
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. – Bob Goff
Figure out what fuels your joy, then do lots of that – Bob Goff
Something happens when you feel ownership. You no longer act like a spectator or consumer, because you’re an owner. Faith is at its best when it’s that way too. It’s best lived when it’s owned. – 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
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. – Bob Goff
God keeps telling us to be not afraid, to go big. – Bob Goff
Embrace uncertainty. Some of the most beautiful chapters in our lives won’t have a title until much later. – Bob Goff
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. – Bob Goff
I used to think being a believer was enough, but now I know Jesus wants us to participate, no matter what condition we’re in. – Bob Goff
Stand up like a mountain; have faith like a rock; love like an avalanche – Bob Goff
Love is never stationary. – Bob Goff
I used to think that real love involved falling for someone; but now I think it usually involves standing for someone. – Bob Goff
The thing I love about God is He intentionally guides people into failure. – Bob Goff
I think God’s hope and plan for us is pretty simple to figure out. For those who resonate with formulas, here it is: add your whole life, your loves, your passions, and your interests together with what God said He wants us to be about, and that’s your answer. – Bob Goff
If we only do what we’re familiar with, we might miss what we’ve been made for. – Bob Goff
Fear will give us a reason not to try; hope will give us a reason not to listen. – Bob Goff
Love God. Love people. And do stuff. That’s my punch list everyday. – Bob Goff
Grace works that way. It’s a kind word from a gentle person with an impossible prayer. It’s a force sometimes transmitted best hand to hand in a dark place. – Bob Goff
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. – Bob Goff
I want to go barefoot because it’s holy ground; I want to be running because time is short and none of us has as much runway as we think we do; and I want it to be a fight because that’s where we can make a difference. That’s what love does. – Bob Goff
What I’ve learned the more time I’ve spent following Jesus is that God delights in answering our impossible prayers. – Bob Goff
Don’t let other people decide who you are. – Bob Goff
Our opinions are what we’ll be known for; our love is what we’ll be remembered for. – Bob Goff
I used to hope the things I did would work; now I hope they last. – Bob Goff
God’s big plan: go love everybody, always! – Bob Goff
God makes confetti out of our titles and accomplishments to celebrate the poor and the humble. – Bob Goff
We don’t really make friends, they make us. – Bob Goff
Words people say not only have a shelf life but have the ability to shape life. – Bob Goff
Grace means we don’t need to airbrush our lives to make them look like they’re working. – Bob Goff
I used to think God guided us by opening and closing doors, but now I know sometimes God wants us to kick some doors down. – Bob Goff
Inspirational Bob Goff Quotes
Don’t let other people decide who you are. – Bob Goff
I used to think being loved was the greatest thing to think about, but now I know love is never satisfied just thinking about it. – Bob Goff
Live a life of conspicuous grace and courageous resolve. – Bob Goff
People who take huge risks aren’t afraid to fail. In fact, they love to fail. It’s because failing means they found the edge. – Bob Goff
We’ll fill our lives with what we cultivate the most. Plant grace by the acre. – Bob Goff
What distracts us will begin to define us. We don’t need to swing at every pitch. – Bob Goff
When you love people like Jesus, you get messy. But messy looks good on you! – Bob Goff
When you trust someone, you don’t need to know everything. – Bob Goff
Next to grace, I bet God thinks making us need each other was one of His best ideas. – Bob Goff
But the kind of love that God created and demonstrated is a costly one because it involves sacrifice and presence. It’s a love that operates more like a sign language than being spoken outright. – Bob Goff
Nobody turns down an invitation to the White House, but I’ve seen plenty of people turn down an invitation to fully live. – Bob Goff
Sometimes the things we think are the impediments are actually the path. – Bob Goff
Here’s our job as believers, love everybody ALWAYS! – Bob Goff
I used to think I could learn about Jesus by studying Him, but now I know Jesus doesn’t want stalkers. – Bob Goff
I used to want to fix people, but now I just want to be with them. – Bob Goff
Do one heroic thing today; big or small doesn’t matter because it defines who you are and what you really believe – Bob Goff
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 humanityIt’s your move. – Bob Goff
Be ambitious about things that last. – Bob Goff
Jesus lets us be real with our life and our faith. – Bob Goff
The way we treat people we disagree with most is a report card on what we’ve learned about love. – Bob Goff
It will be the people with the greatest love, not the most information, who will influence us to change. – Bob Goff
God finds us in the holes we dig for ourselves. We see failures; He sees foundations. – Bob Goff
The most beautiful scenery in the world is when our friends come into view. – Bob Goff
I’ve learned that God sometimes allows us to find ourselves in a place where we want something so bad that we can’t see past it. Sometimes we can’t even see God because of it. When we want something that bad, it’s easy to mistake what we truly need for the thing we really want. When this sort of thing happens, and it seems to happen to everyone, I’ve found it’s because what God has for us is obscured from view, just around another bend in the road. – Bob Goff
It will be more love, not more information, that will change our hearts. – Bob Goff
Every time we see people as ordinary, we turn the wine back into water. – Bob Goff
Deep Bob Goff Quotes About Love, Hope, Life and Joy
I used to think God wouldn’t talk to me, but now I know I’m just selective with what I choose to hear. – Bob Goff
Love doesn’t try to be efficient; when it is most extravagant, it is least wasted. – Bob Goff
Fix your eyes on Jesus; it’s ok to stare. – Bob Goff
You don’t need a plan; you just need to be present. – Bob Goff
We might be known for what we believed, but we’re certain to be remembered for what we did about it. – Bob Goff
I used to think I could shape the circumstances around me, but now I know Jesus uses circumstances to shape me. – Bob Goff
Go be the next humblest version of yourself. – Bob Goff
We keep asking for answers; God keeps sending us people. – Bob Goff
Jesus always pointed people towards a better version of themselves – particularly when they’d failed. – Bob Goff
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. Like the circular rails of a train at an amusement park, the scripts we know offer a brand of security, of predictability, of safety for us. But the problem is, they only take us where we’ve already been. They loop us back to places where everyone can easily go, not necessarily where we were made to go. Living a different kind of life takes some guts and grit and a new way of seeing things. – Bob Goff
God made beauty so we’d know how He felt about us. – Bob Goff
I used to think you had to be special for God to use you, but now I know you simply need to say yes. – Bob Goff
Love does whatever it takes to multiply itself and somehow along the way everyone becomes a part of it. – Bob Goff
See people for who they’re becoming. Not who they were. – Bob Goff
Failure is just part of the process, and it’s not just okay; it’s better than okay. God doesn’t want failure to shut us down. God didn’t make it a three-strikes-and-you’re-out sort of thing. It’s more about how God helps us dust ourselves off so we can swing for the fences again. And all of this without keeping a meticulous record of our screw-ups. – Bob Goff
Loving people the way Jesus did, means living a life of constant interruptions. Bring it. – Bob Goff
Day turned to night, His friends scattered and death thought it had won. But heaven just started counting to three. – Bob Goff
The teachers I’ve learned the most from, didn’t think they were teaching me; they just thought we were friends. – Bob Goff
The way we deal with uncertainty says a lot about whether Jesus is ahead of us leading, or behind us just carrying our stuff. – Bob Goff
Most people need love and acceptance a lot more than they need advice. – Bob Goff
What I noticed, though, is almost every time I type the word love, it gets changed to the word live… I learned that fully loving and fully living are not only synonymous but the kind of life that Jesus invited us to be part of. – 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
Whatever you’re aiming for, God’s better. – Bob Goff
Courage isn’t the absence of fear, it’s just deciding that fear isn’t calling the shots anymore. – Bob Goff
People who want to manipulate you will fear your joy, because it’s not easily controlled. – Bob Goff
It’s easy to confuse a lot of activity with a purposeful life. Do what lasts; let the rest fall away. – Bob Goff
Stop telling people how far they have left to go. Instead tell them how far they’ve come. – Bob Goff
We can be the light of the world without leaving our high beams on and annoying everybody. – Bob Goff
Jesus modelled that we don’t need to talk about everything we’ve done. It’s like He’s saying, what if we were just to do awesome, incredible stuff together while we’re here on earth and the fact that only He knew would be enough? If we did, we wouldn’t get confused about who was really making things happen. Not surprisingly, we’d get a lot more done too, because we wouldn’t care who’s looking or taking credit. All that energy would be funnelled into awesomeness. – Bob Goff
Love one another. We don’t need more instructions; we need more examples. – Bob Goff
The words we speak to each other should leave stretch marks, not bruises. Love is always picky about what it says. – Bob Goff
Love has the kind of power criticism only wishes it had. – Bob Goff
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. He asks if we’ll give up that thing we’re so proud of, that thing we believe causes us to matter in the eyes of the world, and give it up to follow Him. He’s asking us, ‘Will you take what you think defines you, leave it behind, and let Me define who you are instead?’ – Bob Goff
We’ll become whoever we trust the most says we are. – Bob Goff
Insecurity wants us to keep track of our failures; grace doesn’t even write them down. – Bob Goff
Selfless love is always costly; fear can’t afford it; pride doesn’t understand it and friends never forget it. – Bob Goff
God never said He’d eliminate all of the chaos from our lives; He just said He’d bring meaning to it. – Bob Goff
The world will figure out what we really believe, by watching what we actually do. – Bob Goff
Too often we are posers. Don’t be afraid. Be you. Live a life worthy of the calling YOU’VE received. – Bob Goff
We won’t be distracted by comparison if we’re captivated with purpose. – Bob Goff
We can’t always see people’s pain; they can always feel our love. – Bob Goff
That’s what love does – it pursues blindly, unflinchingly, and without end. When you go after something you love, you’ll do anything it takes to get it, even if it costs everything. – Bob Goff
We’ll fill our lives with what we cultivate the most. Plant grace by the acre. – Bob Goff
Most of our decisions are driven by either love or fear. Figure out who’s doing the talking, then decide what you’ll do. – Bob Goff
Do what lasts, get around to everything else. – Bob Goff
Courage doesn’t mean we’re not afraid anymore, it just means our actions aren’t controlled by our doubts. – Bob Goff
God isn’t trying to make our lives easier; He wants to make them more meaningful. – Bob Goff
God often waits until we’re out of ideas before He lets us know His plans. He competes for our hearts, not our attention. – Bob Goff
I’ve learned that God sometimes allows us to find ourselves in a place where we want something so bad that we can’t see past it. Sometimes we can’t even see God because of it. When we want something that bad, it’s easy to mistake what we truly need for the thing we really want. When this sort of thing happens, and it seems to happen to everyone, I’ve found it’s because what God has for us is obscured from view, just around another bend in the road. – Bob Goff
Jesus never told His friends to play it safe. Love like there’s no t– Bob Goff
God isn’t trying to make our lives easier; He wants to make them more meaningful. – Bob Goff
We spend a lot of energy remembering failures God spent a lot of love saying we could forget. – Bob Goff
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. – Bob Goff
Don’t let not knowing how it’ll end keep you from beginning. Uncertainty chases us out into the open where God is waiting. – Bob Goff
I once heard somebody say that God had closed a door on an opportunity they had hoped for. But I’ve always wondered if when we want to do something that we know is right and good, God places that desire deep in our hearts because He wants it for us and it honors Him. Maybe there are times when we think a door has been closed and, instead of misinterpreting the circumstances, God wants us to kick it down. Or perhaps just sit outside of it long enough until somebody tells us we can come in. – Bob Goff
God pursues us into whatever dark place we’ve landed and behind whatever locked door holds us in. He holds our unwashed and dirty hands and models how He wants us to pursue each other And He says to ordinary people like me and you that 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. – Bob Goff
Don’t save up love like you’re trying to retire on it; give it away like you’re made of it. – Bob Goff
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. – Bob Goff
If you’re following God and haven’t lost much of what you’ve been holding on to – follow a little closer. – Bob Goff
Love like there’s no tomorrow; live like there’s no yesterday. We’re forgiven; now go love people like we believe it – Bob Goff
Love like there’s no tomorrow; live like there’s no yesterday. We’re forgiven; now go love people like we believe it. – Bob Goff
We determine how much influence we’ll have, when we decide how available we’ll be. – Bob Goff
Grace draws a circle around everyone and says they’re in. – Bob Goff
God doesn’t break things so He can fix them; He fixes broken things so He can use them. – Bob Goff
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, 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. – Bob Goff
You can quit anything on a Thursday. – Bob Goff
Stop doing what you’re able to do and figure out what you were made to do – then do lots of that. – Bob Goff
