Top 280 Bob Goff Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “In the Bible there’s a guy named Timothy who gets a letter from another guy named Paul. Paul is like an older brother to Timothy. In the letter, Paul tells him to watch out for people who act holy but don’t get their holiness from Jesus but from the stuff they’ve done, which is pure delusion. Paul called this kind of religious devotion a form of godlessness, meaning it’s the exact opposite of what it’s pretending to be.”

— Bob Goff

252. “God doesn’t just give us Himself. Sometimes He gives us a few other people in our lives whose voices we can trust. Figure out what Jesus’ voice sounds like in your life. He’s standing at the end of the track calling your name. Run as fast as you can in His direction.”

— Bob Goff

253. “We don’t need to call everything we do “ministry” anymore either. Just call it Tuesday. That’s what people who are becoming love do.”

— Bob Goff

254. “I spend a great deal of time working for kids in Uganda and India and chasing bad guys who hurt them. I started a nonprofit a number of years ago and now Sweet Maria and I think about my day job as a great way to fund the things we’re doing. Now when I put on a suit and tie or jump on a plane to go take a deposition, we call it “fund-raising.” It still makes me grin every time to say it this way. It’s like a really successful bake sale to get rid of bad guys.”

— Bob Goff

255. “I think God speaks something meaningful into our lives and it fills us up and helps us change the world regardless of ourselves and our shortcomings. His name for us is His beloved. He hopes that we’ll believe Him like I came to believe what the coach said about me. He hopes we’ll start to see ourselves as His beloved rather than think of all of the reasons that we aren’t.”

— Bob Goff

256. “I used to be afraid that if I was authentic I might take a hit, but now I know that being real means I will take a hit.”

— Bob Goff

257. “It’s hard to believe Jesus loves the van thieves and all the difficult people we’ve met just the same as you and me.”

— Bob Goff

258. “Am I the right guy? I don’t know, but I’m the guy being asked, and the last thing I want to do is miss an opportunity or make God mad, so I just keep saying yes. Maybe God is doing some inexplicable things in your life. Each of us gets to decide every time whether to lean in or step back – to say yes, ignore it, or tell God why He has the wrong person.”

— Bob Goff

259. “What I like about Jesus is that He didn’t try to recruit people or use spin. Neither He nor His disciples ever said they were going on a mission trip, because they weren’t. He just invited everyone and said they could follow Him.”

— Bob Goff

260. “Secretly incredible people keep what they do one of God’s best-kept secrets because the only one who needs to know, the God of the universe, already knows.”

— Bob Goff

261. “I enter each day assuming there’s a thirty-eighth miracle waiting for me if I’ll fully engage life and the people around me with love, honesty, and an unreasonable, almost annoying heap of expectation. What would happen in your life if you started doing the same?”

— Bob Goff

262. “Son, you need to look through the scope at the things that are far away, but you also need to take your eye away long enough to see what’s close.”

— Bob Goff

263. “Love one another.” What is simple often isn’t easy; what is easy often doesn’t last.”

— Bob Goff

264. “We were all meant to save many lives. God is always trying to save lives, and it seems like He usually uses the least likely people to do it.”

— Bob Goff

265. “Jesus told the people He was with that it’s not enough to just look like you love God. He said we’d know the extent of our love for God by how well we loved people.”

— Bob Goff

266. “He comes from heaven, where He has an amazing love relationship with the Father, which, by it’s nature, is the most beautiful existence any person could have. And he offers that to anybody willing to let go of whatever is giving them a false sense of security.”

— Bob Goff

267. “We’re not held back by what we don’t have, but by what we don’t use.”

— Bob Goff

268. “Sadly, whenever I make my opinions more important than the difficult people God made, I turn the wine back into water.”

— Bob Goff

269. “Love cares more about who’s hurting than who’s watching.”

— Bob Goff

270. “You don’t need to know everything when you’re with someone you trust.”

— Bob Goff

271. “God can use anyone, for sure. If you can shred on a Fender or won “Best Personality,” you’re not disqualified-it just doesn’t make you more qualified.”

— Bob Goff

272. “But like my BB gun, what Christ-followers lack in velocity, they make up for in intensity. They are people who have experienced an intensely intimate friendship with Jesus and move forward with an intensity to parallel that experience.”

— Bob Goff

273. “Keep this in mind, though: loving people the way Jesus did is always great theology.”

— Bob Goff

274. “What Jesus said we could do is leave typical behind. We could leave all of the comparisons and all of the trappings and all of the pretending of religion. Jesus told the people He was with that it’s not enough to just look like you love God. He said we’d know the extent of our love for God by how well we loved people.”

— Bob Goff

275. “I want to be doing things today, not just flipping through crinkled and yellowed mental pictures of what happened a long time ago.”

— Bob Goff

276. “God searches for us, no matter what dark place we’re in or what door we’re behind. He hears our impossible, audacious prayers for ourselves and others. And He delights in forgiving us and then answering those prayers by letting us return home to Him.”

— Bob Goff

277. “Friends do – they don’t just think about it.”

— Bob Goff

278. “We won’t convince people with our arguments or Bible verses; we’ll move them with the kind of sacrificial love that precludes every other explanation.”

— Bob Goff

279. “Grace works that way. It’s a kind word from a gentle person with an impossible prayer.”

— Bob Goff

280. “I’ve spent my whole life avoiding the people Jesus spent His whole life engaging.”

— Bob Goff

281. “None of us want to make God look bad. But in the end, being fake makes God look worse.”

— Bob Goff

282. “People who follow Jesus, though, are no longer typical – God is constantly inviting them into a life that moves away from typical.”

— Bob Goff

283. “Barriers make me feel right, and that makes me feel safe. I think this is something we all do to some degree, and there’s no shame in that. Except it’s not what Jesus did. He showed us what it means to become love when He spent His last meal with a man who He knew would betray Him and then willingly died a criminal’s death.”

— Bob Goff

284. “He knows our sadness and the brokenness we want to hide from Him, and He sends people to look for us.”

— Bob Goff

285. “There’s a difference between good judgment and living in judgment.”

— Bob Goff

286. “When the heavens themselves declare His glory, He doesn’t need our endorsement.”

— Bob Goff