Love isn’t something we fall into; love is someone we become. — Bob Goff

Love is never stationary. — Bob Goff

We’re all amateurs when it comes to love. Don’t be too hard on each other. — Bob Goff

He said we’d know the extent of out love for God by how well we loved people. — Bob Goff

Here’s our job as believers, love everybody ALWAYS! — Bob Goff

Most people need love and acceptance a lot more than they need advice. — Bob Goff

We’ll become in our lives whoever the people we love the most say we are. — Bob Goff

Great love leaves little doubt. — Bob Goff

Extravagant love is never wasted. — Bob Goff

The way we love people we disagree with is the best evidence of what we really believe. — Bob Goff

Love doesn’t try to be efficient; when it is most extravagant, it is least wasted. — Bob Goff

Love finds us where we are, not where we were. — Bob Goff

Love one another. We don’t need more instructions; we need more examples. — Bob Goff

When you love people like Jesus, you get messy. But messy looks good on you! — Bob Goff

We need to make our faith our very own love story. — Bob Goff

When joy is a habit, love is a reflex. — Bob Goff

The thing I love about God is He intentionally guides people into failure. — Bob Goff

Love has the kind of power criticism only wishes it had. — Bob Goff

We can’t always see people’s pain; they can always feel our love. — Bob Goff

Stand up like a mountain; have faith like a rock; love like an avalanche. — Bob Goff

Love God, love your neighbors, and do stuff! — Bob Goff

Love God. Love people. And do stuff. That’s my punch list everyday. — Bob Goff

It will be more love, not more information, that will change our hearts. — Bob Goff

Most of us have all the information we need. What we need is more passion. — 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

God isn’t trying to make our lives easier; He wants to make them more meaningful. — 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

Instead of picking your career and backfilling your life behind that, what if you pick your life and backfill your career with whatever is left over? — Bob Goff

Jesus lets us be real with our life and our faith. — Bob Goff

Living a life of following Christ means constant interruptions. — Bob Goff

Embrace uncertainty. Some of the most beautiful chapters in our lives won’t have a title until much later. — Bob Goff

Live your life like you’re exactly who Jesus thinks you are. — Bob Goff

Loving people the way Jesus did, means living a life of constant interruptions. Bring it. — Bob Goff

I’m trying to surround myself during my life with the eight people I’d surround my bed with on my death. — Bob Goff

We won’t figure out what’s sacred in life if we settle for what’s safe. — 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

Too often we are posers. Don’t be afraid. Be you. Live a life worthy of the calling YOU’VE received. — Bob Goff

Start from scratch with Jesus every day and then be picky about what you add to your life. — Bob Goff

Words people say not only have a shelf life but have the ability to shape life. — 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

Hope makes our lives page–turners. — 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

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

You know… life can be like a big game of Battleship. The enemy knows where your ships are and is trying to call the right number and sink them. But he can’t sink you if you’re with God. — Bob Goff

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

We don’t really make friends, they make us. — Bob Goff

The most beautiful scenery in the world is when our friends come into view. — Bob Goff

The people that are my friends and are easy to get along with, they make me feel like I’m a boss at loving people. — Bob Goff

Selfless love is always costly; fear can’t afford it, pride doesn’t understand it and friends never forget it. — Bob Goff

Jesus never told His friends to play it safe. — 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

You know what it is about someone that makes them a friend? A friend doesn’t just say things; a friend does. — Bob Goff

Day turned to night, His friends scattered and death thought it had won. But heaven just started counting to three — Bob Goff

If we only do what we’re familiar with, we might miss what we’ve been made for. — Bob Goff

The shallow end of hope is usually the deep end of grace. — Bob Goff

Insecurity wants us to keep track of our failures; grace doesn’t even write them down. — Bob Goff

Live a life of conspicuous grace and courageous resolve. — Bob Goff

Our failures can leave behind pavement or potholes. Our ability to receive grace determines which it will be. — Bob Goff

Grace means we can put the chalk away and stop keeping score! — Bob Goff

Grace draws a circle around everyone and says they’re in. — Bob Goff

God’s grace comes in all shapes, sizes, and circumstances as God continues to unfold something magnificent in me. — Bob Goff

We’ll fill our lives with what we cultivate the most. Plant grace by the acre. — Bob Goff

Grace means we don’t need to airbrush our lives to make them look like they’re working. — Bob Goff

Next to grace, I bet God thinks making us need each other was one of His best ideas. — 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

God delights in answering our impossible prayers. — Bob Goff

Cynicism is fear posing as confidence; joy is hope let off the leash. — Bob Goff

Fear will give us a reason not to try; hope will give us a reason not to listen. — 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

I used to hope the things I did would work; now I hope they last. — Bob Goff

When you trust someone, you don’t need to know everything. — Bob Goff

No one is remembered for what they only planned to do. — Bob Goff

God isn’t afraid of our doubts; He’s way more concerned when we fake it. — Bob Goff

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

Courageous people feel the same fear everyone else does, they just decide to not be afraid anymore. — Bob Goff

Courage doesn’t mean we’re not afraid anymore, it just means our actions aren’t controlled by our doubts. — Bob Goff

Faith isn’t figuring out what we’re able to do, it’s deciding what we’re going to do–even when we think we can’t. — 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

If you wanna get a report card on your faith, see how you are dealing with people who are really difficult to deal with. — Bob Goff

We need to stop plotting the course and instead just land the plane on our plans to make a difference by getting to the ‘do’ part of faith. — Bob Goff

I learned that faith isn’t about knowing all of the right stuff or obeying a list of rules. It’s something more, something more costly because it involves being present and making a sacrifice. — Bob Goff