Top 280 Bob Goff Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “But extravagant love often means coloring outside the lines and going beyond the norms.”

— Bob Goff

252. “You see, they wanted to follow Jesus’ example; instead of telling people what Jesus meant, they just loved people the way He did.”

— Bob Goff

253. “He continues to tell us through our successes and our mistakes who we are, and here’s what He wants us to know – we are His.”

— Bob Goff

254. “Turn your mountains into molehills by discussing God more than your difficulties.”

— Bob Goff

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

— Bob Goff

256. “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

257. “God created you with unique gifts and ignited the passions He put in your heart for a reason – don’t let fear steal your opportunities and leave you on the sidelines wishing you’d tried. Do what you believe you were created to do. Is it possible it won’t work? You bet. Fail trying, don’t fail watching.”

— Bob Goff

258. “No one expects us to love them flawlessly, but we can love them fearlessly, furiously, and unreasonably.”

— Bob Goff

259. “The kind of adventure Jesus has invited us on doesn’t require an application or prerequisites. It’s just about deciding to take up the offer made by a father who wants us to come.”

— Bob Goff

260. “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

261. “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

262. “Yet Jesus continues to select broken and splattered people not just as followers, but as participants. He called people like me who can’t even figure out which way to turn a screw to tighten it or even stack a cake correctly the ones who would build a kingdom. And then, if we’re willing, He serves us up – rocks, small bits of asphalt, and all.”

— Bob Goff

263. “He said we would identify ourselves simply by how we loved people. It’s tempting to think there is more to it, but there’s not. Love isn’t something we fall into; love is someone we become.”

— Bob Goff

264. “Jesus doesn’t invite us on a business trip. Instead, He says let’s go after those things that inspire and challenge you and let’s experience them together. You.”

— Bob Goff

265. “You can usually tell when someone is doing this because, just like Sceva’s sons, they use Jesus’ name a lot, but it doesn’t seem that they have any of the power Jesus said would come with knowing Him. That power is easy to spot because it usually comes in the form of grace and acceptance, as well as sincere love and respect. It’s the kind of power that actually does things rather than just talking about them.”

— Bob Goff

266. “I think Jesus meant something different when He said “enemies.” He meant we should love the people we don’t understand. The ones we disagree with. The ones who are flat wrong about more than a couple of things. I have plenty of those people in my life, and my bet is you do too.”

— Bob Goff

267. “Memorize grace. Make it your finger memory. Lose the stages. Your faith isn’t a recital. Speak some jazz into people’s live when they miss a couple of notes. Run to them. Don’t give them advice, say their names. And if you don’t know their names, don’t say a thing. Because God makes people, and people make issues, but people aren’t issues. They’re not projects either. People are people.”

— Bob Goff

268. “He continues to rewrite our lives the way I rewrote my book- in beautiful and unexpected way, knowing the next version of us will usually be better than the previous one.”

— Bob Goff

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

— Bob Goff

270. “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 so 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

271. “The world has been shouting over the noise of our programs that it doesn’t need more presidents or organizations, what it needs are more friends.”

— Bob Goff

272. “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

273. “Run toward these people, not away. There is a quiet confidence in knowing we all hit a couple of wrong notes here and there. The report card on our faith is how we treat one another when we do.”

— Bob Goff

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

— Bob Goff

275. “When we keep track of the good we’ve done or love people with an agenda, it’s no longer love; it’s just a bunch of tickets. We can either keep track of all the good we’ve done or all the good God’s done. Only one will really matter to us. In the end, none of us wants to find out we traded the big life Jesus talked about for a box full of worthless acknowledgment.”

— Bob Goff

276. “If we did that, 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 funneled into awesomeness. Even then, though, don’t take the bait that if we do incredible things Jesus will dig us more. He can’t. He already digs us more. And more than that, our pictures are already in His wallet.”

— Bob Goff

277. “Faith isn’t a business trip walked on a sidewalk; it’s an adventure worked out on a steep and sometimes difficult trail.”

— Bob Goff

278. “When people realize there’s no agenda other than friendship and better understanding, it changes things.”

— Bob Goff

279. “Instead, Jesus modeled that we don’t need to talk about everything we’ve done. It’s like He was 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?”

— Bob Goff

280. “I don’t think people trying to make their points are always aware of the damage they are doing to other people’s hearts or their own reputations, but the fact is, they are doing damage. When it comes to the words we use, we’re never shooting blanks even though we think we are. In the Bible, Jesus said that our words are an overflow of whatever is in our hearts.1 I agree and wonder if we understand that many of the words we are using have become distractions to ourselves and the people around us.”

— Bob Goff

281. “No one is remembered for what they only planned to do.”

— Bob Goff

282. “Jesus talked to His friends a lot about how we should identify ourselves. He said it wouldn’t be what we said we believed or all the good we hoped to do someday. Nope, He said we would identify ourselves simply by how we loved people. It’s tempting to think there is more to it, but there’s not. Love isn’t something we fall into; love is someone we become.”

— Bob Goff

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

— Bob Goff

284. “If you can shred on a Fender or won ‘Best Personality,’ you’re not disqualified – it just doesn’t make you more qualified. You see, God usually chooses ordinary people like us to get things done.”

— Bob Goff

285. “Think the thoughts you would think if you wholeheartedly trusted God’s promises.”

— Bob Goff

286. “It taught me that when God is big enough and loves me enough to say He forgives me, I should actually believe Him.”

— Bob Goff